Indian Residential School Museum of Canada

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A central Indian Residential School Museum of Canada (about: Museum of the American Indian boarding schools in Canada ) is provided since 1999, the history of the schools were placed in the approximately 100,000 Indian children especially from 1920 to 1980 to document. It opened in the Residential Scholl in Portage la Prairie on June 21, 2008, a building from 1916.

In August 2003, a delegation from the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba proposed that the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the capital Ottawa build such a building on their reservation . Accordingly, it was to be built in Portage la Prairie in Manitoba, in a former boarding school building. This former Portage Indian School (now the Rufus Prince Building ) was of sufficient size that the planning was supported by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the Assembly of First Nations .

The plan is to reconstruct a dormitory, a classroom, a garden of memory, but above all an archive and a library . The reports and pictures of former students are to be kept and documented there.

The last of these schools was closed in Saskatchewan in 1996. The catastrophic conditions prevailing in these schools (violence, attacks, diseases such as tuberculosis ) should also be documented. Canadian Heritage made $ 4 million available to the project for this planning , plus smaller amounts from the Museum Assistance Program and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation . The museum project is also supported by the National Residential School Survivors' Society , which held its first general assembly in Winnipeg in 2007 . However, the implementation of the plans has proven to be more protracted than expected, especially since the total amount of 8 million dollars is not yet available.

The museum, which is already listed on the Association of Manitoba Museums website , was due to open on June 21, 2008.

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  1. ↑ A photo of the facade of the building can be found here , an aerial photo here .
  2. ↑ This and the following from: Manitoba native band plans residential school museum , in: CBC News , June 21, 2004, archive.org, August 24, 2010 and Portage residential school museum in works , Portage residential school museum in works , CBC News 21. August 2006, archive.org, April 18, 2009.
  3. ^ S. Association of Manitoba Museums. Indian Residential School Museum of Canada ( Memento September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )