The Oklahoma Human Rights Commission asked the American State not to cut off school hair from children in their home countries. In schools and jails in the United States and Canada, for centuries, indigenous people were forbidden to wear long hair, cutting their hair completely when they arrived. They also banned them from speaking in their language. They forced children to take them to boarding schools, and once there, taking advantage of violence, these citizens sought to give up their culture. Hundreds of children were killed, for example in Canada, as has been demonstrated decades later. Primitive peoples claimed the right to follow their culture and tradition.