How Long to Read Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs

How Long Does it Take to Read Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 10 minutes to read Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs by Melanie Florence

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Over more than 100 years, the Canadian government took 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and placed them in residential schools. In these schools, young people were assigned a number, forced to wear European-style clothes, forbidden to speak their native language, required to work, and often subjected to physical and psychological abuse. If they tried to leave the schools to return to their families, they were captured by the RCMP and forced back. Run by churches, the schools were paid for by the federal government. The last residential school closed in 1996. It took decades for people to speak out in public about the devastating impact of residential schools. School Survivors eventually came together and launched court actions against the federal government and the churches. In 2008 the Canadian government apologized for the historic wrongs committed by the residential school system. The survivors’ lawsuits led to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history, and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Commission spent six years gathering testimony and discovering the facts about residential schools. This book includes the text of the government’s apology and summarizes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, which offer the basis for a new relationship between the Canadian government, Aboriginal people, and non-Aboriginal people.

How long is Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs?

Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs by Melanie Florence is 130 pages long, and a total of 32,500 words.

This makes it 44% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 57 minutes to read Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs aloud.

What Reading Level is Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs?

Residential Schools: Righting Canada's Wrongs is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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