According to Zig Zag, the author of Colonization and Decolonization, assimilation can only happen after military defeat and the surviving Indigenous populations are subject to assimilation. Zig Zag says the first step is to contain the surviving population in reserved areas, this is important because it helps open up the territory for exploitation and settlement. Next, Zig Zag goes on to say that missionaries who have settled, go on and remove children from their families and place them in residential schools; often targeting chiefs and high ranking families first, in hopes that they will influence their communities. The Author states that the main goal of assimilation is to wipe out all the Indigenous culture and philosophy by the means of