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A great many indigenous youngsters were expelled from their homes and sent to private schools across Canada. Private schools were utilized as a way to take out all parts of Indigenous culture. By implementing compulsory enlistment into government subsidized offices run by the congregation, the administration would have liked to absorb the indigenous individuals. Figuring out how to impart in English receiving Christianity and creating agrarian, home making and exchange abilities were a portion of the necessities of the youngsters that went to private schools. The Canadian government accepted that by receiving another increasingly "respectful" lifestyle through the rejection of Indigenous conventions, culture and language was the main way the indigenous populace would flourish.
The Lejac or Fraser Lake Residential School named after Father Jean Marie Lejac was situated on Fraser Lake in northern British Columbia and opened in 1890. As the quantity of youngsters coercively expelled from their homes expanded a bigger office was required. In 1922 another structure was raised that would oblige the flood of understudies. A significant number of the kids that went to the establishment were from encompassing networks, for example, the Gitxsan, Wet'suwet'en and Sekani. From 1922 to 1976 when the organization shut Lejac private school was worked by the evangelists from the Order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of the Roman Catholic Church .The Dakelhs otherworldly convictions that were fixated on Utakke (high God or sky soul) and numerous spirits in nature were surrendered and Christianity was embraced.
The school was situated in the core of Dakelh Territory in North focal British Columbia and numerous youngsters that went to the school were of Dakelh drop, rehearsed Dakelh social customs and talked the vernacular of their district. The English name Carrier is an interpretation of the Sekani name for the Dakelh, Aghele. The source of this term originates from the widows of Dakelh men who hauled around their incinerated stays for a time of grieving that endured roughly three years. Otherworldly convictions incorporate. The profound convictions of the Dakelh individuals
Figure 1. Lejac Residential School
Dakelh signifying "individuals who travel by pontoon" involved domain along the Fraser River from north of Prince George to south of Quesnel, the Nechako Valley, the territories around Stuart Lake, Trembleur Lake, and Fraser Lake, and the district along the West Road and Blackwater Rivers, west to the Coast Range, including the Kluskus Lakes, Ootsa Lake and Cheslatta Lake. Sovereign George, Vanderhoof, Fort Saint James, Fraser Lake and Quesnel are in Dakelh domain. (Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ). (n.d.). Recovered from http://maps.fphlcc.ca/dakelh). The Dakelhs vivacious hood relied primarily upon the wealth of salmon. In any case, they additionally chased moose, deer and other wild game found in their area and wild plants were likewise a piece of the Dakelh diet. When Lejac Residential school shut in 1976 the land was moved back to the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation and the structures were annihilated. The main proof of the previous school that despite everything remain is the Roe Prince remembrance and the burial ground.
Figure 2. Lejac Residential School, Central Interior BC 1922-1976 (Nadleh Whut'en First Nation, 2013
In spite of the fact that the specific number of understudies that kicked the bucket while going to Lejac Residential school is unsure the most remarkable were the passings of Allen Patrick 9 years of age, Andrew H. Paul 8 years of age, Justa Maurice 8 years of age and John Michel Jack who was seven years old. On New Year's Day 1937 the little youngsters fled from the Lejac Residential School. In the wake of covering an expected 7 miles, the young men were discovered solidified to death.
