The so-called "churches" from Catholics, protestants, presbyterians, and otheres viewed Aboriginal people as "child-like creatures in constant need of the paternal care of the government. With guidance, they would gradually abandon their superstitious beliefs and barbaric behaviour and adopt civilization" (Titley, 1992, p.36). Segregated day and residential schools had failed to meet the goals of assimilation. If you look up the Residential School Topic you will find that 150000 native children were abused, tortured and even murdered by the priests and nuns who ran these so-called schools. So, the Church and State continued their organized crime schemes and came up with the bright idea of foster and adoptions - just like they put in place in other parts of the world. As residential schools became discredited (victims started exposing the abuse), the child "welfare system" became the new agent of assimilation and colonization (Johnson, 1983). Returning to their reserves and bands, many residential school students felt alienated and overwhelmed - understandably so after all the torture, abuse and starvation they experienced, just like 300000 children in Ireland's abusive religious residential schools did. Growing up in the residential school system, Aboriginal children were not given role models to look up to - they were instead starved, and physically, emotionally and mentally abused by the priests, nuns and school officials. As one can imagine, this has had detrimental ...