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Monday, August 12, 2013

Yellowknife, NWT – Two local leaders have waded into the debate over whether Canada’s residential schools era should be referred to as a genocide.

The latest controversy came last week when Aboriginal chiefs in Manitoba complained after a Winnipeg museum scratched the word genocide from an exhibition about Canada’s treatment of aboriginals.

Western Arctic MP Dennis Bevington says we need to look into the latest revelations about residential schools.

“What we’re seeing is that there was a lot more going on in the residential schools history than we ever thought. When we see that they were using children for food experiments, when we see that there was other things like that going on by our Canadian government, those are things that have to come out. We have to acknowledge our past. If we don’t acknowledge our past, how can we be a…