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Triangular settler relations: Li-Chun Fang, Yushen Fang, ‘Colonial Encounters and Identity Formation: Dutch Colonizers, Hoklo Immigrants, and Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth-Century Formosa’, Dutch Crossing, 2026 »

Resident(ial) evil: Kayla Boileau, Karine Vanthuyne, ‘Legacies of Mass Violence: Indian Residential Schools in Canada’, in Nerina Weiss, Maria Six-Hohenbalken, Linda Green (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Mass Violence, 2026

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Abstract: Indian Residential Schools were created by the Government of Canada and Christian Churches to assimilate Indigenous children into settler colonial culture. This method was developed at the end of the 1880s, when the settler government formalized agreements with the Churches to establish and manage boarding schools aimed at evangelizing and assimilating Indigenous children. From 1920 to 1960, this policy of assimilation through forced schooling was in full force. Education, specifically, was an insidious weapon for the removal of any sense of Indigeneity in the Survivors, but not the only weapon utilized by the settler state.


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