Churches starting to face facts on boarding schools

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7. Canada has been at least admitting

to the damage of the abusive assimilation schools.

In the US the same things happened but the US has been in total denial until Secretary Haaland opened this period up for investigation. Native people in the US have the same stories to tell, but often the pain, embarrassment, and sense of shame from those experiences makes it difficult for them to come forward and talk about it, especially when nobody would acknowledge the truth of what they had to say.