Do you want to learn more about The State of Canada’s First Nations Children? Well, continue reading this essay and you will learn a lot. I hope after reading my work you will understand and enjoy learning on Canada’s First Nation’s children and how much trouble they have gone through these past years!

Today, as you know, Canada is the most multicultural country in the world and the home of immigrants from every country and religious group! Less than 500 years ago, the only people living in Canada were the Aboriginal people of Canada. Aboriginal means of the original inhabitants, the people who were here first. The words Native or Indigenous are, also, used and mean the same thing.

Did you know…for 7 generations, the Canadian government took Aboriginal children from their families and put them into residential schools? Children were, often, in these schools from the age of 4-17 years old. Students were not allowed to speak their language, practice their beliefs, contact their families and there is evidence that many suffered abuse and the death rate, in many schools, was 50 percent.

The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996, so this is, also, part of recent history! Even in the 1960’s, there was this policy, named by many, called the 60’s scoop where Aboriginal children were taken from their families and adopted out to be raised by white families. There are many students in the TDSB whose parents and grandparents suffered under these policies. The government’s own documents state that one of the goals for residential schools was to kill the Indian in the child.

The residential schools caused children from communicating with their families, because when the Aboriginal children came back to their families they forgot their own language and their families didn’t know how to communicate in any other language but their own! So it was tough for the First Natives back then and still is today!

Today, there are First Native children whom have grown and now are adults whom don’t know how to speak their language which now helps make some of their languages extinct. They can’t pass it to their younger generation and keep their culture and what they have known alive.

Now, the First Nations children and families are still having a hard life. They are not being treated fairly and the children are getting bullied! The government is trying its very best to help but it is not that much of a success yet! I hope they get treated fairly like everyone else and the government makes a change!

In my opinion, I don’t like residential schools by the sound of it and I wish they have never existed. The government of Canada, at that time, should have thought about it more deeply and have a little more empathy for them. I mean this is their country and they did discover it. So, at least, we should appreciate that we live in a good country and include everyone no matter the colour, background, gender and so on. You name it!

In conclusion, The State of Canada’s First Nations Children is that they had a really tough life, in residential schools, as you read in this essay. The main idea, you should all know, is that no matter who you are, you’re the same as anyone else! The image on the outside is just showing who you are. Inside, we are all the same and that’s what I love the most!