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-Confederation is in 1867.
-The federal residential school system began in 1883.
-But the origins of the residential school system date back to the
1830's, when the Anglican Church opened a residential school in
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Children are kidnapped from their homes. Thousands never return. Many parents never receive word about the fates of their children. Canada commits cultural genocide on the First Nations of Canada.
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Yeah, that's right. 1996.
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The intent is to unearth the history that Canada has literally tried to bury. Mass graves of children are uncovered.
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It's a political move, made by a party that doesn't have the best interests of First Nations people in mind. The vast majority of First Nations people find it to be insincere coming from someone who actively works to rid First Nations people of their rights.
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One year after apologizing, Prime Minister Harper attempts to whitewash history by denying the literal foundation of "Canada," which is colonization.
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Prime Minister Trudeau takes the day off, instead of leading by example by taking part in the remembrance of the children whose lives were stolen from them, and the futures of their children's children's children, whose knowledge of themselves were also stolen from them.
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Why am I speaking English? I am what residential schools planned me to be, an Indian who doesn't know his language, isolated, trying to make it in the White man's world.