Residential schools very strongly imposed English or French on native children, who could only speak their native languages when they arrived at the schools. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the language that you speak changes the way you perceive the world. This is especially true with native languages, which developed isolated from European powers. When language is taken away, it becomes hard or impossible for a child to express themselves, which therefore stops them from spreading their cultural ideas. It kills the spread of Native culture. In the novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four by…