2013/10/01 by Grant Charles, Mike DeGagné · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Child Abuse and Trauma #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Child Welfare and Adoption #Mainstream #Conceptualization #Sexual abuse #Sociology #Pedagogy #Residential school #Foundation (evidence) #Psychology #Public relations #Political science #Suicide prevention #Poison control #Medicine #Socioeconomics #Law
paper · doi:10.1080/0145935x.2013.859903
openalex publication_date 2013/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The Indian residential school system in Canada was established to assimilate Aboriginal children into mainstream society by removing the “Indian within them.” In the past 20 years survivors of the schools have come forward with stories of physical and sexual abuse perpetrated against them by staff. However, what is significantly less spoken of is the abuse which occurred between students. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation recently held a small gathering of survivors, Elders, advocates, and researchers to discuss ways to bring this issue into the open. This article comes out of the discussions held at the gathering. Within the article we offer a conceptualization of the dynamics and processes of student to student abuse within the Indian residential schools in Canada with the hope that it will encourage a deeper discussion of this issue.