How did they get to residential schools?

Residential schools were isolated schools where aboriginal children were forced away from their families home and culture and were forced to adapt into a white society. these schools were run by the...

there was only schools like that out there because there where no one to teach those kids how to read and it was the only way how to learn and it would get you ready for the future

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They began in between the years of 1870 - 1880. The Last school closed in 1996.

The last Indian residential school, White Calf Collegiate, in Canada was closed in 1996.