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They Came for the Children: Truth Commission Sheds Light on Canada's Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples
Lathem, Alexis http://www.towardfreedom.com/31-archives/americas/4213-they-came-for-the-children-truth-commission-sheds-light-on-canada-s-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples
Publisher: Toward Freedom
Date Written: 23/03/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Imagine a village with all its children gone. For aboriginal peoples all across Canada, this was their lived reality, not the stuff of imagination. The story of what happened to the children -- who were forcibly removed from their families and sent to military-style camps that were euphemistically called "schools" -- has at last been told, compiled in the monumental six-volume Truth and Reconciliation Report on residential schools for aboriginal children released in 2015.
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