To deculturize aboriginal children they needed to be separated from their families. To do this, residential schools were created off reserve land and parental access was restricted causing parents and their children to lose contact with one another . This allowed church employees, who ran the schools, the chance to take over and become the new parental figure for the impressionable minds of the young, terrified, and confused Indigenous children. Furthermore, as Carpenter states, the children were isolated from not only their family and homelands, but also from their friends and siblings, which made them more vulnerable to the massive brainwashing inflicted in order to replace their “pagan superstitions” with Christianity . Recalls Joseph Martin Larocque who attended the Qu’Appelle school, “They scared us.…