Residential Schools In The 1800's

During the 1800's, children were taken away from their families and friends from orders of the federal government. The government was working upon a system that isolated children from their families, traditions, language and culture. The purpose of residential schools was to take Indigenous children and "to kill the Indian in the child" (Erin Hanson), meaning to rip the Aboriginal identity out from the children. The government wanted all Indigenous children to be taught a culture that they thought was most suitable to a Canadian lifestyle: to become Christian and put into a Euro-Canadian way of living was the main idea and purpose for this schooling system. Children were forced to be taught a new culture, and to forget their already-existing culture. The residential schools system disrupted children on their ways of living in the 1800's, and still continuing on to this day. The federal government and their …show more content…
It is important to acknowledge that impact that this school system had on Indigenous people because of the way we see how residential schools can still be affecting children, and the survivors.

Page Break RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS EXPERIENCE 2 Residential schools can be the cause of identity change amongst Indigenous children because of the way they were forcibly taught and told to forget their language. Children were not taught their mother tongue while being placed in residential schools, which then caused them to encounter a loss of language due to a loss of identity. A Loss of language can affect families in multiple ways and throughout many different generations to come. The language of