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> It's been 100+ years since they were mistreated in any serious fashion. The last residential school (Where native children would be kidnapped into, to have
by vkou 4y ago
> It's been 100+ years since they were mistreated in any serious fashion.
The last residential school (Where native children would be kidnapped into, to have the Indian, quite literally, beaten out of them) in Canada closed in 1998.
- kspacewalk2 4y agoYes, but this is very simplistic, since it's insinuating that the beatings for Native languages and other horrific mistreatment took place in 1998, whereas in fact that's not close to true, the worst evils of what we associate with Residential Schools ended many decades before the 1990s, mostly before WW2. Doesn't make them good or right, forcing kids into boarding schools based on their cultural background is very wrong even if there are no beatings or malnutrition.