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Spazito

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5. Most Canadians had either no or very little knowledge of the residential schools...
Thu Jun 24, 2021, 01:14 PM
Jun 2021

and the horrendous abuse that took place in them until just recently. Even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report didn't reach the majority of Canadians so the horrors of these unmarked graves is, for too many, the first they are hearing and understanding of this in any depth.

For many indigenous people, the redemption has yet to happen. The trauma of generations of their families being torn apart, their children torn from their arms, their culture, language, beliefs, their very names forcibly removed, remains. It was, as described in the TRC findings, cultural genocide, to say the least.

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