Residential schools were made compulsory for First Nation children to attend by the amendment of the Indian Act in 1884 into the closing decades of the 20th century. (Restoule) The federal government created the schools’ system and the Christian churches administered the schools and the education styles. (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schools-in-canada-1.702280) Residential schools were built to serve two purposes: to remove and isolate the native children from their homes, families, traditions, and cultures and to assimilate them into the mainstream of the Canadian Christian culture. The system was created by the assumptions of many, that the Aboriginal cultures and their spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal
