Oct 3, 2023

I can make an ethical judgement about the treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools I believe Residential Schools were a horrible idea because they took innocent Indigenous children away from their homes. They forced them to forget their entire culture and learn the Catholic religion. They only got to see their families and friends on rare occasions and in some circumstances, never. The kids were badly abused at the schools and sometimes murdered and thrown in burial pits in the ground. They lied about what happened to the children and said they ran away or got sick and died. I don’t understand the point of residential schools because why would you take innocent Indigenous people and throw them into these terrible residential schools and try to remove their cultural identity? it just doesn’t make any sense why the Canadian government ever thought that this was right.

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