Talk:Canadian Indian residential school system

Residential school graves

"Ongoing efforts since 2021 have identified thousands of possible unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools, though no human remains have been exhumed and maybe over stated as explain in the 2023 book Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools) by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan 2604:3D09:1583:7700:2993:DC8E:58CB:53B6 (talk) 17:27, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

What of it? We discuss this issue in this article, and in more depth in Canadian Indian residential school gravesites. The book you mention is privately published and is likely not anything we can use as a reliable source. Meters (talk) 19:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Well the statement in question is partially true. Some have been exhumed but no bodies have been found yet in 2025. Resistance to exhuming bodies is ongoing too for whatever reason. John Not Real Name (talk) 17:28, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Are we writing about Residential Schools or Day Schools?

There are two problems with this section: ( Canadian Indian residential school system#Parental resistance and compulsory attendance ).

The first is that it begins about residential schools: "Some parents and families of Indigenous children resisted the residential school system throughout its existence. Children were kept from schools and, in some cases, hidden from government officials tasked with rounding up children on reserves. Parents regularly advocated for increased funding for schools, including the increase of centrally located day schools to improve access to their children, and made repeated requests for improvements to the quality of education, food, and clothing being provided at the schools. Demands for answers in regards to claims of abuse were often dismissed as a ploy by parents seeking to keep their children at home, with government and school officials positioned as those who knew best."

Then the rest of this section is about Reserve Day Schools not Residential Schools: "In 1894, amendments to the Indian Act made attendance at a day school, if there was a day school on the reserve on which the child resided, compulsory for status Indian children between 7 and 16 years of age. The changes included a series of exemptions regarding school location, the health of the children and their prior completion of school examinations. It was changed to children between 6 and 15 years of age in 1908. The introduction of mandatory attendance at a day school on the reserve was the result of pressure from missionary representatives. Reliant on student enrolment quotas to secure funding, they were struggling to attract new students due to increasingly poor school conditions."

This is a confusing statement: "The introduction of the Family Allowance Act in 1945 stipulated that school-aged children had to be enrolled in school for families to qualify for the "baby bonus", further coercing Indigenous parents into having their children attend." I am a bit confused as to the point of this, compulsory education is the law in Canada in 2025. Everyone has to send their child for state-approved education. In some cases you can be fined and imprisoned for not allowing your kid to attend. I guess this is a general point to explain in the article. John Not Real Name (talk) 17:54, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Huge markers in map

Is there a rationale behind having the red markers so enormous? It makes the map very challenging to navigate, even when the map is in full-screen. The overlapping of the markers makes it hard to perceive their number, which could mislead readers. The markers with other colours are also too big - the map would be improved if they could be made smaller as well. Indefatigable (talk) 19:46, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Maybe should be changed. But as a note for me they are a fixed size on the screen and only look that relatively big in the thumbnail view. They're much relatively smaller if you open the image. North8000 (talk) 20:12, 9 June 2025 (UTC)