A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

by John S. Milloy

Book Overview

"I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry." -- Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) " I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school." -- N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948) For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556469
• ISBN13: 9780887556463
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.