“The Stranger” by the late Gord Downie. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, indigenous children were forced to attempt Caucasians trying to erase their residence schools. Children are also victims of harsh abuses, causing many of them to attempt to flee. In the poem, it is talking about a boy Chanie Wenjack, he escaped school because he is forced to study white people’s language and they cannot speak their language, the kid in school weren’t friendly at him. They forced to cut their hair off.  On his way back home, he lost and died. This poem is important because it teaches people what children like Chanie must experience. The treatment given to Indigenous Peoples at the time was unacceptable and inexcusable, especially when young children were torn from their homes. Many Canadians do not know this dark past.