Beyond the Mainland

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, we are going to explore the Native boarding school systems in Canada, and in our 49th and 50th states, Alaska and Hawaii. The US wasn’t the only nation setting up mandatory residential schools for Indigenous populations, and in the beginning, many of these programs mirrored those of the US with a focus to “civilize” Indigenous children. We’re not referring to merely hundreds of students who were taken from their families, but hundreds of thousands spanning decades. With many students unable to return home and schools operating “in loco parentis,” it would be years before the truth of these atrocities would come to light.

Note: We would like to issue a content warning for this episode. Some parts of this episode may not be suitable for younger audiences.

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Written and researched by: Heather Jackson, Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid, and KariMarisa Anton

Thank you to our guest K. Tsiannina Lomawaima and some of the music in this episode was composed by indigenous composer R. Carlos Nakai.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome to episode 6 of our series, Taken, Native boarding schools in
0:10.4	America.
0:11.4	Today's episode discusses some first person survivor accounts, which may not be appropriate for
0:17.7	all audiences.
0:20.2	Jeal Petique, who attended the Point Blues School in Quebec after it opened in 1960.
0:29.2	Yes, 1960.
0:32.0	Remember that to the staff there, students were a little more than walking numbers.
0:38.4	He said, I remember that the first number that I had at the residential school was 95.
0:43.5	I had that number 95 for a year.
0:47.6	The second number was number 4.
0:49.6	I had it for a longer period of time.
0:52.3	The third number was 56.
0:54.5	I also kept it for a long time.
0:56.3	We walked with the numbers on us.
0:59.7	When you think of anyone as a number, when you withhold their name, you strip them of
1:06.1	their humanity.
1:08.3	Today we're going to explore the Native boarding school systems in Canada and in our 49th and 50th
1:14.6	states, Alaska and Hawaii.
1:18.9	I'm Sharon McMahon.
1:20.9	And here's where it gets interesting.
1:25.6	The United States was not the only nation setting up mandatory residential schools for
1:32.6	indigenous people.
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