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It addresses the schools' role in forcing cultural assimilation of the resident children into the ways of the majority culture of European Americans. [ 1 ] The School Library Journal 's review called it an "outstanding documentary", noting that "viewers are encouraged to develop a deeper appreciation of the importance of transgenerational ...
The initiative entailed the physical transfer of children from their families, with the use of force, to receive education in so-called boarding schools. [3] Churchill analyzes this as an act of cultural genocide , since the forced assimilationist policies (as school policies) prohibited the use of the students' own languages and their exercise ...
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
It was also shown in the United States on PBS on June 6, 1990, as part of the American Playhouse series [3] [4] and was screened at multiple film festivals in Canada and the United States. The film stars Michelle St. John as Amelia, a young Kainai girl captured and confined to the residential school system of the 1930s. The system was an ...
Residential segregation has had major consequences for poverty and health disparities; for example, a 2016 study in the Journal of Urban Health found significantly higher levels of childhood blood poisoning in Black children than White children in Detroit, and that a neighborhood's socioeconomic position was correlated with average blood lead ...
The home of many children’s classic TV shows has launched PBS Retro, a free ad-supported channel that’s available via the Roku channel on Smart TVs, Roku devices, and web browsers. The channel ...
The following programming is exclusive to PBS Kids web-based platforms, such as the PBS Kids website, PBS Kids Video app, and other streaming platforms. This content is not broadcast by PBS Kids and has never been aired on television. 1 Co-distributed by Amazon Prime Video, the official streaming partner for PBS Kids programming. [1]
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