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Tara Newkam Valoczki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation presents a qualitative study exploring the motivations behind parents' and guardians' decisions to enroll and maintain their elementary-aged children in a residential school setting. The study identified three key factors influencing these decisions: the pursuit of non-financial stability, the desire for reputable education, and…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes, Caregiver Attitudes
Carr-Stewart, Sheila, Ed. – University of British Columbia Press, 2019
In 1867, Canada's federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Educational History