CANADA
CBC News
June 18, 2018
More than 130 schools were in operation across Canada
For more than 100 years, First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were taken from their families to attend residential schools, which were run by churches and funded by the federal government.
Students lost their language, culture and family bonds. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) final report said the residential school system amounted to “cultural genocide” against Indigenous people in Canada.
In 2008, the federal government formally apologized for the residential school system and other policies of assimilation.
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