Global Parallels · Portal 6 of 8 · Latin America mission & integration
Different systems.
Same colonial goal.
Follow one portal in the GLOBAL PARALLELS series: similar systems, different contexts. This chapter compares Canada with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile to show how governments, churches, missions, labour systems, and land policy tried to absorb Indigenous peoples into settler-controlled nations, and how Indigenous nations resisted, survived, and continue cultural renewal.
Learning board
Concepts identified
Cards reveal as you solve chapters. They are grouped to show that assimilation was not one policy, but a web of schools, missions, land seizure, racial ideology, and resistance.
Closing reflection
we survive, resist, thrive.
Assimilation was a system, not a single building.
Canada's residential schools made forced child removal and boarding institutions central. Latin American states more often blended military conquest, missions, local schooling, labour control, land reduction, and racial ideologies such as whitening or state-led mestizaje. The common purpose was to weaken Indigenous sovereignty and identity.
- Compare methods without minimizing harm in either region.
- Look for land, language, labour, and schooling together.
- End the story with Indigenous resistance, not with victimhood.
- Use this portal as one part of the eight-part Global Parallels set: similar systems, different contexts.