Answer:
Aboriginal children would be sent to a boarding school to be taught that they were dirty, and that their ways of life were wrong. They would make them Christians and strip them of aboriginal culture. They did this because when the Europeans settled, they didn't know what to do with the "other guys". Many residential school students were mistreated, neglected, and abused. They didn't have a choice whether to go there or not, it was the law. They would cut their hair short (long hair is traditional, for both male and female) and make them dance and entertain the Europeans.