Residential schooling was an act of cultural genocide because people were not murdered, but the Indigenous culture was. Children who were forced to attend residential schools had their tongues stabbed if they spoke their native language. A residential school survivor says. “ I remember getting my tongue pulled out and pinched if I spoke my native tongue”. This was an act of cultural genocide because children were punished for speaking their native language, consequently, it was gradually removed from society. This is not considered genocide because it is not a mass killing of people from a certain ethnicity it is the destruction of a culture. Next, children from residential schools had no choice but to attend. Children were ripped from their
