Book
Indian school days
Toronto, Canada • Key Porter Limited • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Johnston, Basil.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a former student's reminiscence of life at an Indian residential school in northern Ontario during and after the Second World War. Told mostly in anecdotes, it is a humorous but painful account of 'acculturation.' During the war the students were taught obsolete vocational skills and discipline was cruelly enforced. The students developed a gallows humor and hated and feared their Jesuit teachers. Their diet consisted of mostly watery gruel, bread, and lard. After the war the school was upgraded to a high school with a liberal arts curriculum and the diet improved to include meat and butter. Under this regime the students learned 'to better themselves' and 'become true citizens of Canada.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Missions
- Liberal arts education
- Vocational education
- Educational theory and methods
- Students
- Texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Educator
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939-1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Garnier Residential School, Spanish, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Basil H. Johnston
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- c880932783
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians