Cultural assimilation has been an interest of mine ever since I took a course on Canadian Social History. In that class, I wrote an extensive research paper about the Confinement of Freedomite Children between 1953 to 1959. Two hundred Freedomite Children from the Kootenay region of British Columbia were systematically removed from their homes by the police and placed in the New Denver dormitory. The parents of these children were the Sons of Freedom, an extremist group of the Doukhobors. As a result of the maltreatment, those who were institutionalized in New Denver had a traumatic childhood, which lead them to suffer from the long-terms effects in their adulthood.
Therefore, I want to explore the effects of Cultural assimilation in other regions of the world. My goal for this Research Portfolio is to examine how cultural assimilation endangered Sami way of life, language and culture during the 19th and 20th century, and how it sparked opposition as a form of resistance against cultural assimilation.
In this blog I intend to write about my insights and personal reflections regarding the research material of the Assimilation of the Sami.
A Sami Family
