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Assimilation agressive
L'élément central de cette politique était un système d'écoles industrielles où l'enseignement religieux et l'enseignement des métiers allaient aider les Autochtones à s'adapter aux exigences de la société occidentale.
Legislation for the Residential Schools
Prime Minister Macdonald authorized the creation of new residential schools and granted government funds for those that were already in place.
Législation pour les pensionnats
Le premier ministre Macdonald a autorisé la création de nouveaux pensionnats et octroyé un financement gouvernemental à ceux qui existaient déjà.
The Role of the Churches
Learn about the Catholic and Anglican churches' role in propagating residential schools throughout Canada.
Building the Indian Residential Schools System
One of the most important historians of the residential schools, James R. Miller, estimates that a great number of indigenous students were, in fact, educated in day schools, although the residential schools left the most painful, long-lasting marks on indigenous communities.
Construire le système des pensionnats autochtones
L'un des historiens les plus importants sur les pensionnats, James R. Miller, estime qu'un grand nombre d'élèves autochtones étaient, dans les faits, éduqués dans les écoles de jour, bien que les pensionnats aient laissé les marques les plus douloureuses et durables sur les communautés autochtones.
“Until There Is Not a Single Indian in Canada”
Over the 150-year span of the Indian Residential Schools system, Canada saw close to 150 schools and 150,000 pupils.
« Jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus un seul Indien au Canada »
Pendant les 150 années du système de pensionnats autochtones, le Canada a connu 150 écoles et 150 000 élèves.
Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial
Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945.
Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial (en español)
A sculpture serves as a memorial of Jews who were murdered on that spot During World War !!
Sixty pairs of shoes mark the site in Budapest, Hungary, where fascist Arrow Cross militiamen shot Jews and threw their bodies into the river in 1944 and 1945. The memorial opened in 2005. See full-sized image for analysis. This image is in Spanish.
White Rose Resistance Group
Hans Scholl, Sophie School, and Christoph Probst conversing outdoors in 1942
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942. They were members of the White Rose, a resistance group that condemned Nazism.