What were some of the ways in which the residential school deliberately withheld the basic determinants of health and interrupted natural childhood development? 

The children were not nurtured or cared for in a good way. They were given bland food. Sometimes they were starved. Sometimes they were put in isolation in a cage called the Iron Sister. They were made to stay in sterile and cold conditions. They could not play like children, they were stripped of their cultural identities.