US EditionIndigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools
Residential school denialism harms survivors and undermines reconciliation as experts say at least 6,000 children died in these schools, with the actual number possibly much higher.
- In May 2021, the Tkemlúps te Secwépemc Nation announced preliminary results of their search for unmarked graves of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, forcing Canada to reckon with a truth that Survivors had carried for years.
- Survivors of the residential school system, like Shumiacher Ollie Webber, shared harrowing accounts of abuse and forced separation from their families, revealing the cultural genocide inflicted on Indigenous Peoples through these institutions.
- An estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children attended Canada's residential schools, where they were abused and barred from speaking their languages in a campaign that a government commission has called "cultural genocide.
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Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools
As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential schools has been exaggerated or falsified.
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Indigenous survivors recount past horrors at Canada residential school
Roberta Hill, one of the thousands of Indigenous people who survived Canada's notorious Mohawk Institute residential school, said she was first sexually abused by an Anglican minister after bidding her visiting mother goodbye.
A number of public figures claim that the tragedy of residential schools for Aboriginal people is greatly exaggerated, or even distorted, by First Nations people. From 1857 to 1996, 150,000 Aboriginal children were forced to live in residential schools run for churches and funded by the state. Separated from their families and communities, several of them were subjected to ill-treatment, including a ban on speaking their own language. The number…
A number of public figures claim that the tragedy of residential schools for Aboriginal people is greatly exaggerated, or even distorted, by First Nations people. From 1857 to 1996, 150,000 Aboriginal children were forced to live in residential schools run for churches and funded by the state. Separated from their families and communities, several of them were subjected to ill-treatment, including a ban on speaking their own language. The number…
Indigenous Peoples grapple with claims downplaying the history of residential schools – Energeticcity.ca
OTTAWA — As Indigenous Peoples marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this week, they also had to confront a persistent problem: public figures claiming the history of residential schools has been exaggerated or falsified. It’s a problem community leaders say poses a real challenge to reconciliation efforts across the country. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, mandated out of a legal settlement between the federal government…
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