Aboriginal sex offending in Canada

In the next section, we analyze the dimensions and consequences of the calamity that occurred when Western and Aboriginal systems of thought and action collided during the period of colonization. [...] Hence, in the traditional way, the victim, the abuser and the community all have an important role to play in resolving the dispute and healing the wounds. [...] These responsibilities included learning to hunt, to cook, to sew, to build snow houses, to train a dog team, to learn the arts of oral traditions, dances, and songs, to learn to parent, to live in harmony with fellow Inuit, to share, to survive, to cooperate, and to contribute to the well-being of the community. [...] These elements included: 1) the use of storytelling and examples as the main method of teaching, 2) the involvement of Elders, 3) and the embedding of education in the traditions of each culture (Kennedy 1970; Grant 1996; Haig-Brown 1989; Miller 1996). [...] The development of the residential school system was inextricably linked to the economic and social changes that transformed the vast lands of Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century (Dyck 1997; Milloy 1999).