Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface to the 1999 Edition xxxi
5. Acknowledgements, 1999–2017 xxxiii
6. Suffer the Little Children xxxv
7. Vision: the Circle of Civilized Conditions
8. The Tuition of Thomas Moore 3
9. The Imperial Heritage, 1830 to 1879 11
10. The Founding Vision of Residential School Education, 1879 tO 1920 23
11. Reality: The System at Work, 1879 to 1946
12. "A National Crime": Building and Managing the System, 1879 to 1946 51
13. "The Charge of Manslaughter": Disease and Death, 1879 to 1946 77
14. "We Are Going to Tell You How We Are Treated": Food and Clothing, 1879 to 1946 109
15. The Parenting Presumption: Neglect and Abuse 129
16. Teaching and Learning, 1879 to 1946 157
17. Integration and Guardianship, 1946 to 1986
18. Integration for Closure, 1946 to 1986 189
19. Persistence: The Struggle for Closure 211
20. Northern and Arctic Assimilation 239
21. The Failure of Guardianship: Neglect and Abuse, 1946 to 1986 259
22. Beyond Closure, 1992 to 1998 295
23. Appendix 307
24. Notes 309
25. References 388
26. Index 397