Residential School Research Paper

Residential school these institutions were invented with the idea of killing the Indian in the child and assimilating the first nation people of Canada into caucasian society. The schools were implementing religion and the white man's ways into their lives and aid them become like the rest of society in the eyes of the government. What no would foresee would be the deaths of children, the abuse the starvation and much more of the first nation people who had done nothing but been here before the Europeans arrived. The purpose of residential schools was to integrate Aboriginal children into Canadian society. They pursued Aboriginals to think that their kids would learn skills to help them in modern society. Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald hired Nicholas Flood Davin to research industrial institutes in the U.S. Public funding for the schools began because the government strived to incorporate the U.S. …show more content…
Canada has the chance to give the first nations of this country's life better by owning up the treaties we signed to keep up our word of the royal proclamation if we go back and fix all the things we didn't wrong that we used to make them a challenge like the Indian act and the residential schools I think Canada and the first nations relationship would be an opportunity. Instead of tell history from our point of view, we could let them tell it from there making this different and would show the world we take care and support or relationship with the first nations even though all the wrongs we did to them.We have the chance now to fix our injustices to uphold our promises made by our ancestors and i believe that if we did this the opportunity with the first nations would be a great one. I think first nation makes and opportunity in the Canadian identity of Canada and I believe it would make our identity even greater as the years go