CANADA
Toronto Star
By: Andrew Livingstone News reporter, Published on Wed Jul 17 2013
The letter was written in perfect cursive.
“Thank them for what they have done to us all.”
Before it was mailed, two words were changed, and one added.
“Thank them for what they have done for us.”
Sent to government researchers and bureaucrats in Ottawa at the behest of their teachers, dozens of thank-you letters speak volumes of what little 1,300 aboriginal children knew of the experiments they were subjected to without their consent during their time at residential schools.
Guinea pigs in the name of science.
New historical research on nutrition experiments on aboriginal children across Canada in the 1940s and ’50s sparked outrage from aboriginal leaders Wednesday wanting a response from Ottawa.
Grand Chief Shawn Atleo said says the story is dominating conversations at an assembly meeting in Whitehorse. The assembly is drafting an emergency resolution demanding that Ottawa acknowledge that aboriginal children are still hungry.
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