Residential Schools: Impacts and Resistance
Students investigate the long-term impacts of residential schools and early forms of Indigenous resistance to the system.
Key Questions
- Analyze the long-term impacts of separating children from their families and languages.
- Explain how Indigenous communities resisted the residential school system.
- Evaluate the concept of cultural genocide in the context of residential schools.
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