By Riley

Residential schools are for aboriginal children, it was made to get the kids away from their parents and to make them forget about their language. They tried to make the kids leave their culture.

 The parents or kids didn’t know where they were going. The parents couldn’t visit and the kids weren’t allowed to go see them on holidays.

 A quote from the book “They Came For The Children”, “We didn’t hear from them for a long, long time. We didn’t know how they were down there. I remember being so worried about them.

In the book “They Came For The Children”, there is a story called “My Kingdom For A Nurse” about health. The story talks about how kids in residential schools died because of illness, diseases. They didn’t have any nurses to help them with their conditions.

 The schools in High River, most of the kids were diagnosed with tuberculosis in A quote from the book by Deputy minister of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott said “Fifty per cent of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education which they had received therein.

 A story called, “The first and last thing I can remember” was about the hunger and starvation at Residential Schools. Frederick Loft, wrote “I recall the times when working in the fields, I was actually too hungry to be able to walk, let alone work”.

 The kids were fed little servings of food everyday, George Manuel attended Kamloops school said “Hunger is both the first and last thing I can remember about that school…. Every Indian student smelled of hunger”. The kids had to eat almost the same food, they couldn’t chose what to eat. Lots of kids starved at Residential Schools.

 The parents couldn’t stop the people from taking their kids to residential schools. If they tried to stop them, they could have been thrown into jail.

 In the book “They Came For The Children”, Someone said that they were beaten after getting mad at the principal, she ran off and she had to hid in the forest, her grandpa had to help her hide.

 Working on this Residential School project helped me learn more about what happened there and why it was made. What I researched for is if the parents knew what was happening to their children and if they did anything about it, the parents did not exactly know what was happening and what was going on at the schools.