(IS) Residential Schools in Canada: Assimilation and Loss of Self-Identity

There were many important points learned while doing our report, such as how culture and socialization are both fundamental to the objective of the Residential schools. Culture was fundamental because the goal of these Residential Schools was to assimilate the Indigenous community into the beliefs, tradition, and overall Canadian/European culture. An example of this was through language, a form of non-material culture. After Indigenous children had been taken from their homes, stripped of their personal possessions, and separated from their families, they were also forbidden to speak their…