The failure of the Red Deer Industrial School

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1993
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Operating from 1893 to 1919, the Red Deer Industrial School, financed by the federal government and managed by the Methodist Church, became one of a number of institutions designed to inculcate selected Indian students into Euro- Canadian society. Both the government and the church were attempting to address the future of Amerindians especially as their traditional means of livelihood had ended and settlement on the prairies was beginning means of acculturating and Christianizing, civilizing, realized. Education became the principal ensuring that the goals of and "Canadianizing" would be. Yet the federal government never provided the Red Deer Industrial School with sufficient financial resources for the Methodist Church to implement the educational programme. Inadequate funding, directly responsible for the poor quality of staff, also ensured that education would be subordinate to the school's agricultural output. The parents, who were never consulted about the children's education opposed the school's programme and its location.
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Bibliography: p. 113-127.
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Fox, U. H. (1993). The failure of the Red Deer Industrial School (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12023
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