A recent article discussing the discover of over 200 child burials in Canada has brought the Canadian Residential School system back into the light. The schools were for First Nations children to be indoctrinated into white society. They striped children of languangen and identity and forced them into gender-typical labor. it was a horrifying time in Canada that came to an end, in once case, in just 1996.Links

• Why Canada is mourning the deaths of 215 children
• The Residential School System
• https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/
• http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/12440/etd7411_SDielissen.pdf
• Finding Cleo
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
• https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AAA-Hamilton-cemetery-FInal.pdf
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-residential-school-remains-update-1.6053467

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