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The Canadian government and the Roman Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian churches operated nearly 700 Indian Day Schools across Canada, in every province and territory except for Newfoundland. Indian Day Schools operated for over a century, from the 1860s to 1990s.

In 2005, Canada and nearly 80,000 Survivors reached the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in which Canada committed to individual compensation for Survivors, additional funding for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The History of Indian Day Schools The Canadian government and the Roman Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian churches operated nearly 700 Indian Day Schools across Canada, in every province and territory except for Newfoundland.

Q2: What does the Settlement include in terms of compensation? Compensation ranges from $10,000 to $200,000 in consideration of your harms associated with attending a Federal Indian Day School or Federal Day School.

As Wilton Littlechild, a residential school survivor and one of the delegates, told me before we left for Rome, of the approximately 150,000 children who attended the schools, just 40,000 are still alive and as many as four survivors may be dying each day.

In March 2021, the Sixties Scoop claims process reinstated all deadlines.

The sixties scoop refers to a period of time (late 1950's to 1980's) when the Residential School system was being replaced by a foster care and/or adoption system. Indigenous children were often place non-Indigenous homes.

Aboriginal survivors of Canada's residential school era have mixed emotions about the Canadian federal government's November 23 decision to pay $2 billion in reparations to survivors. Although satisfying to some, the financial compensation has left other survivors feeling insulted, if not infuriated.

You do need papers from the relevant provincial or territorial child service agency documenting your placement in care or documenting your status to apply. Claim forms will be available at sixtiesscoopsettlement.info or by calling 1-(844)-287- 4270 after the settlement is approved by the courts.

New Brunswick did not have any Indian residential schools, but 12 Indian day schools operated in the province at various times between 1880 and 1992. The final school to close was in Metepengiag. Indigenous children were often sent to the Shubenacadie residential school in Nova Scotia.