- Peter Bryce
Dr. Peter Bryce was an official of the
Ontario Health Department ,Canada . He released his famous book in 1922 titled " The Story of a National Crime :Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921 " which exposedgenocide of theaboriginal s in Canada.Bryce was hired by Indian Affairs Department in Ottawa to report on the health conditions of the
Canadian residential school system in western Canada and British Columbia . His report was officially buried by the government till 1922, when Bryce who was subsequently hounded out from his service released it as a book.Bryce claimed that Indian children were being systematically and deliberately killed in the residential schools. He cited an average mortality rate of between 30 % to 60 % .He also alleged that staff and church officials were withholding and falsifying the records of children's death.
Further reading
* Annett, Kevin, "" (2005)
* Barman, Jean et al., eds. (1986) Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy. ISBN 0-7748-0243-X
*Ward Churchill , "Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools", City Lights Books.,U.S., 2004, ISBN 0872864340
* Edwards, Brendan Frederick R. (2005). Paper Talk: a history of libraries, print culture, and Aboriginal peoples in Canada before 1960. ISBN 0-8108-5113-X
* Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). "Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School." Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd. ISBN 0-88978-189-3
* Milloy, John S. (1999). 'A National Crime': the Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. ISBN 0-88755-646-9
* Mitchell, Jennifer. "Indian Princess #134: Cultural Assimilations at St. Joseph's Mission" (2003)See also
*
List of Canadian residential schools
*United States Indian Boarding School
*New Zealand Native schools
*Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission External links
* [http://www.nrsss.ca/ National Residential School Survivors'Society]
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-692/disasters_tragedies/residential_schools/ CBC Digital Archives – A Lost Heritage: Canada's Residential Schools]
* [http://www.irsr-rqpi.gc.ca/ Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada (Government of Canada)]
* [http://www.afn.ca/residentialschools/photos.html Residential Schools Photos] –Assembly of First Nations
* [http://www.carleton.ca/ccph/aboriginal/aboriginals.html Aboriginal Children and the State] – Canada and Australia: A Guide to Web Resources
* [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/shingwauk/ Shingwauk's Assessment] – a website based on "Shingwauk's Vision"
* [http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org Hidden From History]
* [http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/ Official Residential School Settlement website]
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