
AskHistorians Podcast Episode 204 - Residential Schools in Canada with Elle Ransom
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Residential Schools - Are They a Part of a Wider, Systematic and More General Programme Planning by the State?
I think that it's interesting to think about, is this particular issue of the residential schools a spartof of specific context rite a part of a wider, systematic and more general programme planning by the state? Can you talk a little bit about that? Sure. So as originally in vision, a us. Indian policy treated indigenous nations as nations, but they weren't fully independent. Their sovereignty is limited by the us. Government, under the whims of the us. government. And then the stick was the ever present thread of genicidal violence against indigenous communities that didn't follow through with this. That narrative, whill true, elements of it are true, is not the best way to
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