Reflecting on the report written on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was heartbreaking and incomprehensible to understand what the children had to overcome to survive. Throughout the process of reading, analyzing, and writing the report, we learned so much about the silent cultural genocide in Canada’s residential schools. The central element we learned about how culture was fundamental to the goals of the residential schools was to assimilate the aboriginal people and educate them on how to live in a “white world.” We also learned that nuns “had no qualification whatsoever to, to, to…