Investigators in Canada have discovered 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children.
751 children. Taken from their families and forced into abusive, dehumanizing schools where they died. 💔
huffpost.com/entry/751-bodi…
751 children. Taken from their families and forced into abusive, dehumanizing schools where they died. 💔
huffpost.com/entry/751-bodi…
"Chief Cadmusn Delmore ... said that the graves were marked at one time, but that the Roman Catholic Church that operated the school had removed the markers.
'The Pope needs to apologize for what happened,' he said.
'An apology is one stage in the way of a healing journey.'”
'The Pope needs to apologize for what happened,' he said.
'An apology is one stage in the way of a healing journey.'”
The U.S. government did the same thing for more than a century and it carried on into the 1970s:
Hundreds of thousands of Native American children were taken from their families and forced into horrific, abusive white assimilation boarding schools where many died.
Hundreds of thousands of Native American children were taken from their families and forced into horrific, abusive white assimilation boarding schools where many died.
2 days ago, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland -- whose grandparents were forced into these schools -- launched a first-of-its-kind review of the “devastating history” of these schools.
The agency will try to locate burial sites and ID the children there. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
The agency will try to locate burial sites and ID the children there. huffpost.com/entry/deb-haal…
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