CANADA
St. Albert Gazette
Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012
By Kevin Ma | St. Albert Gazette
Residential schools were an assault on aboriginals and local schools should teach students about them in order to affect reconciliation, says a federal commission.
The federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its interim report last weekend. The report, part of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, is part of an ongoing effort to reveal the truth of Canada’s residential school system to the public.
About 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their homes and placed in residential schools, the commission found, where they were forbidden to speak their own languages and often mentally, physically and sexually abused. “Generations of children were traumatized by the experience,” the report read.
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