Abuse In Residential School

Residential School is set up by the Canadian government and administered by a church that has an objective to educate Aboriginal children and turn them in Euro- Canadian and in a Christian ways. It started prior to Confederation and signing of the treaties in Canada. The first residential school was established in 1840. The government and the church were the ones who were responsible for the children at residential school. In 1883 until 1923 the Residential School were created as a part of government’s policy that were intended to focus on young Aboriginals by eliminating their aboriginal cultural beliefs and practices from a young age. They’re objective was to convert Aboriginal children to Christianity. The grim treatment of Residential School …show more content…
The Residential School students didn’t receive a proper education as the general public school system. Children were taught a proper basic skill such as doing laundry, sewing, cooking and farming. They work all day; in fact they’ve become slave in that school. Some of them were badly beaten, severed punished and worst is they were used in medical experiments. Some children are forced to sleep outside in the winter, forced to wear soiled underwear on the head or wet bed sheets on the body. Students were fed poor quality of food and provided moldy, maggot- infested and rotten foods. “Here 's us, poor little kids. A lot of times we ate porridge with maggots floating around." Azarie Bird said. Also, children were frequently assaulted, raped, or threatened by staff or other students. Emile Highway was one of the victim of sexual abuse. "I was strapped, I was sexually abused, and I had to go through a healing process to deal with feelings of inadequacy... shame." Some of the children give up from the abuse that they experienced so some of them try to escape or died from it. Survivors did share their traumatic experiences like Fred Sasakamoose who said, "I was an employee - a slave. We used to milk about 60 cows in the evening... That 's why my arms are strong, my wrists are …show more content…
Aboriginal children were taken away and force them to leave from their home, made them forget about their culture and were abused in different ways. Overall, people who are from Residential School were hardly to move on from their painful experiences and until now they are still living with fear. Fear from the things that they experienced that made change their lives and their perspective in life. Until now they are struggling to heal themselves. However, they are becoming more optimistic for the future generations. Some survivors shared their experiences from the Residential School by telling others about it. To share the horrible things that they had and also to let others what the government did back then. It’s their way to lessen the fear that they have and to tell others what did they experience. The scars from Residential School will not easily be erased from them. In fact they will carry it for the rest of their