These findings are in line with the perceptions reported by IRS offspring in the 2002–2003 RHS that parental IRS attendance negatively affected the parenting that they received as children (AFN/FNIGC, 2007, p. 36), which was likely influenced directly through modeling of negative care-taking practices observed in IRSs. Although it might be considered that highlighting the link between historical trauma and individual and collective well-being may deflect attention from the impacts of more proximal stressors, the linkages found between IRSs and contemporary determinants of health actually allow for a greater understanding of these variables and how they can be targeted in health promotion and interventions.
Knowledge of these continued consequences of historical trauma among non-Aboriginal Canadians may similarly help foster improved intergroup relations by increasing understanding of the complicated issues contributing to the health of Aboriginal peoples. This may be explained by the unanticipated finding that IRS Survivors were more likely to speak a First Nations language compared to non-IRS adults living on-reserve (First Nations Centre, 2005, p. 34). For many people Canada is regarded as one of the most peaceful and racially sensitive nations on the Earth and would never relate to a term such as “cultural genocide”. We reviewed the small, but growing literature assessing the intergenerational effects of the IRS system, which has provided consistent evidence of the enduring links between familial IRS attendance and a range of health and social outcomes among the descendants of those who attended.
The country of opportunity, diversity and inclusiveness. Although tests of mediation were not conducted in this study, parental IRS attendance and involvement with the child welfare system was associated with being a victim of sexual abuse among a sample of young Aboriginal drug users (aged 14–30 years; N = 543; For the Cedar Project Partnership et al., 2008). Historical trauma theory similarly suggests that, like the person that experienced the original trauma, subsequent generations might also be exceptionally reactive to stressors. These tragic schools were established because European people wanted the Indigenous people of Canada to be assimilated into Euro-Canadian.
Proving that the government is not always righteous toward various communities.
It was stated that the children will have a better chance of success once they have been Christianised and assimilated into the mainstream Canadian culture.
Intergenerational effects of Residential schools.
I am an intergenerational survivor. Bougie, E., & Senécal, S. (2010). Many children left these schools broken and no longer capable of living a normal life. It has frequently been suggested that the lack of traditional parental role models among IRS Survivors impeded the transmission of positive child-rearing practices and actually instilled negative parenting practices (Evans-Campbell, 2008). In addition to the negative effects on well-being that have been documented among descendants of IRS Survivors, research has begun to identify some of the potential mechanisms by which IRSs exert intergenerational effects (although only some of these have undergone explicit tests of mediation). Because we were focusing specifically on the intergenerational effects of IRSs (as opposed to the direct effects of having attended), respondents who attended IRS were not included in these analyses. In effect, the more generations that attended IRS, the poorer the psychological well-being of the next generation.
Registered Indian children’s school success and intergenerational effects of Residential schooling in Canada.