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Negative Effects Of Residential Schools On Canadian Identity

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Today, the Canadian identity is known as multicultural, however the residential schools breaks and impacts this identity in a negative way. Residential schools were government authorized school set up to educate Aboriginal children in Canadian culture. Its main purpose was to remove children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture. In 1920 the government passed a law requiring every Native child, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, to attend residential school. Therefore, children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent away to the schools. When aboriginal children went to residential school, they forgot their traditions and language, which eventually

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