Culture & the attack on the indigenous identity

The role of culture as it pertains to residential schools was very complex and hard to truly comprehend, nonetheless, two main points can be discerned from the Truth and Reconciliation Report. The first of the two points being that one of the main factors that allowed the government of Canada to establish and run the residential schools was the way in which the Canadian culture perceived the indigenous community. As referenced several times in the report, natives were often described as savages and unfit to raise children, the mere fact that such ideas were allowed to permeate inside…