Culture was fundamental to the goals and operations of the Residential Schools, because they knew that culture is something that either brings people closer together or further apart. What they attempted to do in take all the native people who had a culture of their own and transform them into what they wanted, by forcefully teaching them the language and their religion. If they did not behave the way the schools wanted, they would physically abuse them and tell them to not speak their native language in the schools. They were punished for not doing as they were told either by being yelled…