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The Indigenous genocide started when the Europeans got the Indigenous tripe to take part in peace treaties after the wars and took the opportunity to slowly assimilate the Indigenous people in Euro-Canadian mainstream by using the Gradual Civilization Act that required status Indian and Metis who were over 21 years old to read, write, and speak French or English and to change their name to a government approved surname.

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The Indigenous peoples genocide occured in Canada around 1611 when Europeans came to Canada.

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Survivors demanded that the churches and the federal government to publicly acknowledge their role in the suffering of the students and provide compensation. The government set aside $1.9 billion for compensation to the Indigenous people.

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Indigenous children, parents and political leaders protested against the regime and the harsh conditions at residential schools. Students didn't co-operate, sabotaged the kitchen and class functions, others would run away and some even set fires within the school as a way to protest. Another way survivors resisted was by launching a class-action lawsuit against the government when Canada claimed that they didn't establish or operate any residential schools in Newfoundland and wouldn't give them any compensation.

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A little boy being assimilated into Euro-Canadian mainstream by cutting his hair, and changing his clothes to a more European look.

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"They washed away practically everything from our minds, all the things an Indian needed to help himself, to think the way a human person should in order to survive."

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"They washed away practically everything from our minds, all the things an Indian needed to help himself, to think the way a human person should in order to survive."

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- John Tootoosis,
Residential school survivor

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The children who came out of residential schools or those who grew up in non-Indigenous homes became people who didn't know were they belonged, who they identify with or who they are as an individual.

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Residential schools were used to "civilize" the Indigenous children.

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The residential school curriculum was only at elementary level due to the belief that Indigenous people were intellectually inferior, and staff calling the Indigenous children "little pagans" as a way to insult their culture and beliefs.

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The 1876 Indian Act allowed Indigenous people to be identified as an "Indian" with Indian Status.

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Children were wrongfully removed from their homes because social workers were not required to know anything about Indigenous culture. Government policy didn't allow birth records to be open unless both the child and parent consent. The Gradual Civilization Act required Status Indian men to change their name to one that was government approved.

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Children were forcibly removed from their homes and put into residential schools or into foster homes with non-Aboriginal parents to be assimilated into Canadian mainstream against their will. Children in residential schools faced many abuses that were violent.

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The main perpetrators in this genocide is the Canadian government. Others are Catholic churches who took part in Residential schools, the Child Welfare System and their social workers, and Euro-Canadian families that adopted Indigenous children who kept the child's true identity hidden from them.

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In 2015, the TRC released a final report that documented the experiences of around 150,000 residential school students in Canada and during the "Sixties Scoop" a term created by author Patrick Jhonston, around 20,000 or 70% of Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes by the Child Welfare System. Indigenous women fell victim to the 1876 Indian Act, an act which made it almost impossible for women to have Indian status or be able to return to there homes if they did not have status since their rights as Indigenous people were also taken away.

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In The Genocide Convention, Article 2 states that any of the acts under it committed with intent to destroy a group of people are what genocide is. The second (b) act "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;" the third (c) act "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;" and the fifth (e), "Forcibly transferring children of the group into another group" are all genocidal acts that relate to what happend to Indigenous peoples. A lot of serious bodily and mental harm was inflicted on mainly children in this genocide as they were forced to go to Residential schools where many students unfortunately faced horrible abuses such as physical and psychological abuse. The 1876 Indian Act determined whether or not an "Indian" person could have Indian Status based on male lineage; meaning most Indigenous people (mainly women) did not have status which also means they no longer had the same rights as those who did. Many children were taken from their home by force so that they could be assimilated into the Euro-Canadian mainstream in residential schools or to be adopted by non-Aboriginal parents if a social worker deemed their Aboriginal family unfit to care for them.

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The 1948, UN Genocide Convention doesn't use the term Cultural genocide due to multiple nations objections. The 1994, UN declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples doesn't use the tern cultural genocide as well.

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A Cultural Genocide is the international destruction of a culture by elimination all cultural activities, traditions, artefacts, and the native language. However cultural genocide doesn't necessarily need to involve killing or violence against the group in target. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released a final report that has their definition of cultural genocide "destruction of those structures and practices that allow the group to continue as a group."