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According to the Anadolu Agency, more than 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada attended 140 residential schools over more than a century.
Analysis & context
Analysis & Context
From an analytical perspective, these residential schools represent a dark period in the history of human rights in Canada, where Indigenous cultures were subjected to suppression and persecution. In a broader context, Canada continues to grapple with the aftermath of these colonial policies, with ongoing searches for unmarked graves of students who died in these schools.
