Canada apologizes to Native Americans for abuse of children

[MnFats]

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, addressing one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologised on Wednesday for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were sexually and physically abused.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a Parliamentary chamber packed with legislators and aboriginal representatives that there could be no excuses for what happened at the church-run schools, which mainly operated from the 1870s to the 1970s.

http://uk.reuters.com

my comment: So why can't we?

on edit, before somebody nails me: Native American as in Native North American.

[PDJane]

1. Our name is First Nations People.

[MnFats]

4. i remember. sorry n/t

hell, it's in the text of the story i think. or one of the stories.
wanted to get it up there quickly.

regardless, it's a significant step and one the U.S. should emulate....but almost certainly will not.

[mikekohr]

2. It happened here as well

Tim Giago -Oglala Lakota-, America's foremost American Indian Journalist, among many others has written extensively on this topic. It's a sickening travesty and miscarriage of justice. The apology is long overdue. -If Not Now, When?-


mike kohr

[Stingo]

3. Sounds like Australia

Didn't they do the same thing with the aborigines?