The Indian Agents and RCMP removed the children from their families and placed them within these schools as wards of the state.

Why were these walls built? Why were so many children corralled behind these bricks so far from home? Tens of thousands died of Tuberculosis and other ailments brought on by the grossly inadequate living standards. Families destroyed, generations lost. All to further the official policy of achieving a "final solution" to what had been perceived as an ‘Indian problem’.

Ref: Department of Indian Affairs Superintendent D. C. Scott to B.C. Indian Agent-General Major D. McKay, 1910 April, DIA Archives, RG 10 series.

Pick up a paper today and the chances are there will be some reference to the First Nations condition. Tens of thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuses. The Government has assumed partial responsibility for this historical wrong and has agreed to pay out Billions in damages. Today, both the governments and the churches involved have now apologized for these abuses. They agree that the assimilation of First Nations children within these Industrial Schools was a terrible mistake

A mistake? The assimilation of First Nations wasn’t a mistake; it was a plan.

The abuses that occurred with in these Residential Schools were only symptoms of a greater problem. To focus on the obvious crime of physical and psychological abuse is to divert attention away from the real story..

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