Aboriginal (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William D. Funkhouser.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandie Dielissen.

As part of the project of colonialism in North America, churches and missionaries introduced their standards of childhood through the education of Aboriginal peoples. Indian residential schools determined what it meant for Aboriginal girls to become proper women. Western ideals of femininity, modelled behaviour, appearance and clothing, personal possessions, and household goods informed respectability, and Aboriginal girls were taught a Christian home life geared towards removing them from their...