In the late 1800s, the Canadian government and religious organizations began removing Indigenous children from their homes and replacing them in industrial schools. Residential schools were the most effective solution to destroying Indigenous culture and identity. Many indigenous children left school as adolescents barely able to read and write. What is more serious, then, is that many children are victims of emotional and physical abuse throughout their school years. More importantly, schools were located far away because the federal government wanted to minimize parent-child contact. The severity of the abuse experienced at the residential schools was intended to kill the Indian children there, leading to suffering for the Native children after they left the residential schools. There are many factors explaining how Indigenous children lost their connection to family, identity and culture due to residential schools. Additionally, almost a third of Indigenous children aged 6 to 15 attended residential schools and were often removed from their communities for around 10 months per year. This took Aboriginal children away from their homes, which had a heartbreaking effect on their parents. As a result, parents increased their alcohol consumption because they believed their children did not need them; Additionally, the children blamed their parents for sending them to school. Alcohol was used to alleviate parents' feelings of guilt. Second, indigenous children were treated like slaves; they had no identity. “Upon arrival at the boarding school, some children were severely cut and given numbers that identified them... in the middle of a sheet... after school they would grow up and sexually abuse younger children; so they were aggressors and they would go back. In conclusion, residential schools were a way of assimilating Native people into English culture. This assimilation caused Native people to experience great hardship as they were separated from their families, tortured physically and mentally, and forced to follow a culture that had no similarity to their Native way of life. In fact, the true meaning of residential schools is revealed in how Aboriginal people were transformed; the schools truly killed the Indian in them. Furthermore, the minority group of Indigenous people has experienced adversity like no other group in society and therefore, today, they deserve the government to grant them rights so that they can remember their culture and their indigenous identity..