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The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. People in their middle ages today remember being forced to assimilate across the globe. It's not some long
by Kye 5y ago
The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. People in their middle ages today remember being forced to assimilate across the globe. It's not some long-ago thing. The people who supported these systems are still alive, still influencing policy.
- dragonwriter 5y agoAnd the US federal government was funding church run boarding schools of similar character in the US into the 1960s under the “Indian Civilization Act”, so only about a generation more distant.
- bestulo 5y agowonder how many are still alive who would support this