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Canada's Darkest Secret: Residential Schools

Behind the Bastards

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Sexual Abuse in Residential Schools

In the 1950s, it had become clear to even the most idiotic of soulless bureaucrats that the residential schools were not working as intended. Indigenous children were meant to assimilate to lives as lowly paid laborers. The last residential school closed in 1996; by which point Indigenous groups around Canada were already organizing to sue their government over what they considered to have been an act of genocide.

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