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It argues that reintroducing Indigenous youth to land-based education can repair severed familial and communal ties through practices rooted in nature and shared responsibility. The article also describes the churches and government partnerships that administered the schools, detailing systemic cultural suppression and abuse. 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The resultant intergenerational loss of identity and self-value has cost the Indigenous People and their communities immensely. Aboriginal People based their education system on the real world around them for centuries and are intrinsically attached to nature. This article investigates the benefits of re-introducing Indigenous youth to a land-based educational system as a means of re-attaching the severed familial and communal ties. The very nature of traditional Land-based education practices such as hunting and gathering form strong bonds between participants and nature, and lays the foundation for interpersonal community relationships. It is believed that, by returning to a landbased teaching approach, Aboriginal communities can be rebuilt.  \nRoman Catholic, Anglican, United, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches were the major denominations involved in the administration of the residential school system. The government’s partnership with the churches remained in place until 1969 and, although most of the schools closed by the 1980s, the last federally supported residential schools remained in operation until the late 1990s (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015) . These schools were designed to ruthlessly remove the cultural identity from the Indigenous youth through community isolation and colonial immersion, thereby stripping them of their sense of social belonging and self-worth. The stories of that experience are sometimes difficult to accept as something that could have happened in a country such as Canada, which has long prided itself on being a bastion of democracy, peace, and kindness throughout the world. Children were abused, physically and sexually, and they died in the schools in numbers that would not have been tolerated in any school system anywhere in the country, or in the world (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015) .  \nAs children, Indigenous elders of today were forced to attend Residential Schools, where they suffered many hardships from racism to physical and sexual abuse to dislocation from community and family. For children, life in these schools was lonely and alien. Buildings were poorly located, poorly built, and poorly maintained. The staff was limited in numbers, often poorly trained, and not adequately supervised. Many schools were poorly heated and poorly ventilated, and the diet was meagre and of poor quality. Discipline was harsh, and daily life was highly regimented. Aboriginal languages and cultures were denigrated and suppressed (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015) . After centuries of land-centred living, followed by decades of oppression, the First Nations people of North America are struggling toreconnect with their identity. Family and community connections that provided emotional, spiritual, and physical support have been brutally and systematically dismantled (Corntassel & Hardbarger, 2019) . Entire generations were removed from their communities, and knowledge systems rooted in land were disrupted (Madden, 2019) .  \nRe-introduction of land-based education has been a stepping stone to reversing the effects of Residential Schools. Many of the traditional/cultural activities require multiple participants to work collectively toward common goals and offer a wide range of opportunities to establish meaningful instructional relationships while sharing knowledge in the sustainability of resources in a natural habitat. While gathering firewood, a discussion about the importance of not removing all of it since it is necessary to replenish nutrients in the soil. When hunting, there are many discussions around ethics and proper handling techniques to ensure that the life of  \nharvested animal is honour","cbCaigmxGpx57kca","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigmxGpx57kca","pdf",144784,"English","# Abstract\n# The Impact of Residential Schools\n## Administration, abuse, and cultural suppression\n# Land-Based Education as a Reconnection Strategy\n## Rebuilding identity and community ties\n# The Detrimental Legacy in Education and Beyond\n## Disadvantage, mobility, and social-emotional effects","[{\"question\":\"How did Residential Schools affect Indigenous youth across generations?\",\"answer\":\"Residential Schools caused lasting crippling effects, including intergenerational loss of identity and self-value, which harmed both individuals and communities.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article emphasize land-based education?\",\"answer\":\"Land-based education is presented as a way to reattach severed familial and communal ties by using traditional practices that build strong bonds between participants and nature.\"},{\"question\":\"What roles did churches and government play in operating Residential Schools?\",\"answer\":\"Roman Catholic, Anglican, United, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches administered the schools, while government partnerships with these churches continued until 1969.\"}]","Land-Based Education - Stepping Back To Save the Future | PDF",1792080291,13]