Both in the USA and in Canada it was clear that many of the schools were much further away than they needed to be . The explanation often was that they were mission schools , and ` we were sent to Moose Factory in Ontario because we were Anglicans , and the Anglicans had residences for Indian kids only from Ontario to B.B . ' ( Buckley Petawabano , a Cree man from Mistissini reserve in northern Quebec , quoted in Richardson 1993 : 107 ) . Thus , first indigenous peoples were forced to accept the divisions within Christianity which meant nothing to them ( they were made ` Anglicans ' ) , and then they were punished for it .