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In reply to the discussion: 'Unthinkable' discovery in Canada as remains of 215 children found buried near residential school [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)39. Wasn't there a similar philosophy and practice in Australia, with aboriginal children? nt
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'Unthinkable' discovery in Canada as remains of 215 children found buried near residential school [View all]
Omaha Steve
May 2021
OP
Just taking the kids from their lands and families and teaching them to be white is and was torture.
Botany
May 2021
#3
The story immediately reminded me of the Mount Cashel Orphanage in N & L.
Pacifist Patriot
May 2021
#11
Yes, for most of its years. But the Fed govt took it over in the late 60's till it shut down
pnwmom
May 2021
#38
Wasn't there a similar philosophy and practice in Australia, with aboriginal children? nt
pnwmom
May 2021
#39
Canada has its own reparations to make. Sick as our history, or England, or France, or.....
Evolve Dammit
May 2021
#10
Canada has created a truth and reconciliation commission to expose what happened
Fiendish Thingy
May 2021
#22
That is what is needed. It is the only way to acknowledge the truth and make amends.
Evolve Dammit
May 2021
#41
I think it has for a while been incorporated into a tribe's land and is a park w limited access
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2021
#51
The parents definitely were not "sending" their kids to this institution. The state kidnapped the
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2021
#36
Human trafficking, slavery, and child murder to please someone's money-grubbing jealous deity
Aldemelod
May 2021
#20
You are correct, and because of jurisdiction bullshit, the bastards usually get away with it.
Jay25
May 2021
#31
Sadly, that's what most settlers have done to native populations when the came in uninvited
AZLD4Candidate
May 2021
#40
Are any autopsies being done? Did these kids die from some sudden epidemic?
JustABozoOnThisBus
May 2021
#48