The role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police during the Indian residential school system

LeBeuf, Marcel-Eugène 1952- (Author). Royal Canadian Mounted Police. (Added Author).

Summary: The report is the first complete assessment of the relationship between the RCMP and the IRS system. The focus of the research was to explain how police officers were linked to the IRS system and what actions the police took, if any, if they were aware of abuse. Although the research found that the RCMP was not an active participant in the IRS system, it did conclude that the RCMP assumed a responsive, law enforcement role within the system. The RCMP's role included: - searching for and returning truant children; - finding parents who refused to send their children to school and informing them of their obligations to do so under The Indian Act; - providing transportation to schools; and - occasionally conducting investigations at the schools, primarily related to fires or missing children." --from R.C.M.P. news release

Record details

ISBN: 9781100125244
Physical Description: iv, 463 p. : ill. ; 28 cm + 1 CD-ROM (12 cm).
Publisher: Ottawa : Royal Canadian Mounted Police, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued also in French under title: Le rôle de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada sous le régime des pensionnats indiens. Cover title. ISBN on cover verso: 978-100-12524-4 (sic)
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographic references (p. 174-179).
Formatted Contents Note:	[1.] Introduction -- Current Study -- Methodology: -- Former students' stories, historians and other published experts' work -- Religious orders archives -- RCMP files and archives -- Historical files from DIAND and other archives -- Interviews -- Systemic issue : abuse as a generic term -- Limits and challenges of the study -- Map of the report -- [2.] Contextualization: the Canadian Indian Residential School System [First Nations] -- School systems -- Recruitment -- Discipline -- School problems -- Accounts from former students -- [3.] Contextualization: the Police Role -- Historical perspective -- The RCMP and Aboriginal communities -- The RCMP and the school system -- RCMP past interest in the Indian Residential Schools issue -- Review of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Cases --