School

Telling Our Twisted Histories by CBC

Jun 7, 202100:23:27Society & Culture

For over 150 years, Indian Residential Schools were one of the primary means by which the government assimilated us in order to “kill the Indian in the child.” These compulsory SCHOOLS shattered our families, our languag...

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