The Holocaust in Germany was an ethnic genocide that wiped out millions of Jews in Europe during World War II. They were rounded up and excluded from the general public, because they belonged to an inferior race and were therefore not human beings. They were placed in ghettos reserved for Jews, then sent to concentration camps where they were exterminated or worked to death. This happened because Hitler, as well as part of Germany, demonstrated prejudice against the Jewish people. Similarly, in the late 1800s, Canada believed that Canada's native people were savages and needed to be assimilated into a better way of life. The government felt that they were no good and should be erased from their traditional culture and taught differently. In doing so, it also brought additional benefits to the Canadian economy by providing a new indigenous workforce and reducing existing treaties between Canada and indigenous people. This assimilation would become violent due to the abuses of the churches which managed the daily operation of the schools. These experiences will cause many after-effects long after the end of the residential school era. Residential schools turned into a failed ethnic genocide of Canada's indigenous peoples, comparable to, if not better than, the genocide of Jews in Germany during World War II. This article will examine the factors that led to the creation of residential schools and will also examine the type of abuse inflicted on Aboriginal children and its aftereffects. Residential schools were established for several reasons, such as assimilation into Canadian culture and, surprisingly, economic factors. . Residential schools are a concept that dates back to the 1800s. Three residential schools with...... middle of paper ......nt some of Canada's churches and government as well as additional beneficial economic factors. A plan to assimilate Indigenous peoples into the body politic of Canada turned into an assault on Indigenous peoples through spiritual, physical and sexual abuse suffered by children in these schools, which resulted in thousands of deaths and wounded. These actions against churches and governments have had serious consequences on indigenous populations, within individuals, family households and communities. After many years, many organizations have been created to help indigenous people and residential school survivors, but they are gradually becoming underfunded. These organizations, along with many others, call residential schools an act of genocide by the Canadian government, resulting in severe mistreatment of Indigenous children..