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If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young: Colonial constructions of Aboriginal children and the geographies of Indian residential schooling in British Columbia, Canada

June 2009

If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young

This paper explores how Aboriginal peoples were doubly confined; firstly, by colonial constructions about children, childhood, and Othered (Aboriginal) peoples and then, secondly, within the material geographies of colonial residential schools.

Citation

de Leeuw, S. (2009). If anything is to be done with the Indian, we must catch him very young: Colonial constructions of Aboriginal children and the geographies of Indian residential schooling in British Columbia, Canada. Children’s Geographies, 7(2): 123-40. DOI: 10.1080/14733280902798837.