According to this website https://2eyedhealth.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/the-legacy-of-residential-school-the-impact-on-the-mikmaq-language/
"The primary agenda of Indian Residential Schools in Canada was “to kill the Indian in the child”. The devastating ripple effects caused by residential schools are still present today in our society, ranging from and not limited to the continuation of abuse, alcoholism and the extinction of language."
