When we look at Indigenous populations through Skinner’s lens, we can see that there has been a breakdown to the social fabric of communities as a result of Indian residential schools and Canadian Indian policies of assimilation. Indian children were taught in the schools that everything about them, their language, and their cultures was wrong. The parents and the children were affected by residential schools: the parents suffered the trauma of losing their children and the children suffered the trauma of feeling abandoned by their parents. This deeply rooted trauma caused many people to turn
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