In a class discussion on the treatment of Aboriginals by the Canadian government, Jesse described what happened to his grandmother when she was a child. At around the age of 8 years she was forcibly removed from her parents' home and taken to a school over 800 kilometres away. At the school she was forbidden to speak her own language and prevented from seeing her parents. She didn't see her mother for six and a half years. What was the name of this kind of school?

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Residential schools were institutions created by the Canadian government and run by churches where Indigenous children were taken from their families and communities and forced to assimilate to Euro-Canadian culture. The children were often forbidden from speaking their own language and punished for practicing their own culture and traditions. The goal of residential schools was to assimilate Indigenous children into mainstream Canadian society and erase Indigenous cultures and traditions. The impact of residential schools on Indigenous communities has been devastating and continues to affect generations of Indigenous peoples in Canada today.

In a Class Discussion on the Treatment of Aboriginals by the Canadian