(IS)The Indigenous Power

Culture was fundamental to the goals and operations of the residential schools because it was the reason why residential schools were created in the first place. In fact, the goal of residential schools was to remove young Aboriginals from an environment where their culture was present and put them in an environment where they could be influenced by the “white” European/Canadian culture and forget their roots. Those young Ingenious people were also forced to go through involuntary resocialization. In fact, leaving behind a lifestyle and language that they were so used to and adopting one…