Residential schools
a) Killing members of the group
“many of the people I was in school with have died”, “A lot of them have been murdered.” – Carol Dawson
This shows a lot of people were murdered for their culture and life style.
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
” I saw the abuse of other students” – Carol Dawson
Lots of girls and boys were abused in a variety of ways which effected lots in a mental way.
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
“At that time I believe the Native kids weren’t allowed to go to the public school system, so that’s when they sent us off to the Residential School.”
Canada was separating the groups of the First Nations people and the other kids in Canada.