The toxic history of Canada’s residential schools stretches way back to the 1600s
Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul.Indigenous people in Eastern Canada were able to derail residential school projects in Quebec almost 200 years before the culturally toxic idea was revived under British colonial rule.focuses on the ones that were started in the 1830s, there’s a lesser-known story about earlier attempts to start boarding schools for Indigenous youth several centuries prior in Quebec.
Pastedechouan, a Naskapi boy taken to France by Récollets friars, had a harder time. After spending years in France, Pastedechouan never learned the skills needed to live as a Naskapi, but he didn’t fit into French society. He ended up begging from his own people and the French and became an alcoholic. Pastedechouan starved to death in the forest in 1636.
The priests knew they needed to attack Huron and Naskapi views on sexuality. Young people in both cultures were free to have sexual relations with anyone of their choosing and were not expected to be monogamous until they were married. The Hurons – especially Huron women – had what we would see as modern views of divorce. They were free to leave their husbands and expected them to support their children.The Huron children would also serve as hostages for the Jesuit priests living in Huronia.
At Trois-Rivières, relatives of two of those boys snatched them away from the Jesuits, leaving just Satouta. The surviving boys were forced to endure hours of religious teachings and Catholic mass. They were taught reading and writing, and catechism. Public examinations of conscience and confession took up hours of their day. In what was described as their spare time, they cleared some land for a field to grow corn so they could eat traditional Huron food.
Still, the school was failing. It was meant to house far more than the three or four students who were there at any given time. Nor were many of the boys adopting French lifestyles and Christianity.
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