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residential school (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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5 million had been paid out from the residential schools settlement fund to claimants who proved they had been physically or sexually abused in the nationwide school system. All over the country, legislators are wrestling with questions about state-run residential schools for the deaf and the blind, expensive to operate and serving dwindling populations, as more families opt to keep children at home and search out help from local school districts. Residential schools were instituted by the government when the policy veered to assimilation, traditional practices like buffalo hunting and fur-trading being then on the wane. |
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