Canada's Residential Schools: Vol 1 Part 1 Politics Each chapter contains 2 or Each chapter contains 2 or more features that provide a 1 page summary of a major contribution such as the Indian Group of Seven The remaining chapters discuss her theory about this healing aspect of literature in such works as Maria Campbell's Halfbreed By the period’s end the government was presiding over a nation wide series of firetraps that had no clear educational goals and were economically dependent on the unpaid labour of underfed and often sickly children A failure of leadership and resources meant that the schools failed to control the tuberculosis crisis that gripped the schools for much of this period