The Role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during the Indian residential school system

LeBeuf, Marcel-Eug?ne 1952-

Electronic Resource 2011

"OTTAWA, October 29, 2011 ? Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police presented a copy of its report, The Role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police During the Indian Residential School System, to the Indian Residential School (IRS) Survivor Committee during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?s national event in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (3 )4z (BWe recognize that the Indian Residential School era represents a dark and painful chapter in Canadian...

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9781100125244

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463 pages : tables
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Contents:

[1. ] Introduction
Current Study
Methodology:
Former students' stories, historians and other published experts' work
Religious orders archives
RCMP files and archives
Historical files from DIAND and other archives
Interviews
Systemic issue : abuse as a generic term
Limits and challenges of the study
Map of the report
[2. ] Contextualization : The Canadian Indian Residential School System [Canada, Indians, Native peoples, First Nations]
School systems
Recruitment
Discipline
School problems
Accounts from former students
[3.] Contextualization : The Police Role
Historical perspective
The RCMP and Aboriginal communities
The RCMP and the school system
RCMP past interest in the Indian Residential Schools issue
Review of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Cases
Summary
[4. ] Explanations from Written History
R.C.M.P. work as described in religious order's archive
Summary of religious archives
RCMP activities and law enforcement records in government archive files
Summary
RCMP investigations --Summary
[5.] Explanations from oral history
School system
Abuse and physical punishment : What were the options available to students?
Police and schools
Summary
[6. ] Interpretations of the police role
Police action
Enforcing the law : uniformed patrol, arrest and use of physical force
Referring to partner agencies
Providing services
Engaging with citizens
Students and the Police
APPENDICES
Notes on Archives
Residential schools attended by interviewees
General information
Regulations relating to the education of Indian children
The Indian Act [pertaining to schools]
The RCMP in the north
RCMP activities according to government and church files
Patrol reports in NWT 1912-1963 [Northwest Territories]
Police activities as described in religious archives
RCMP law enforcement activities in government archives files
RCMP investigations and files reviewed

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3151150

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