Content warning for discussion of the Canadian residential schools and other horrific anti-Indigenous behavior by governments.<\/p>\r\n
Background: For over 100 years, the Canadian government funded boarding schools that it forced 150,000 Indigenous children to go to. The schools were administered by various Christian churches.<\/p>\r\n
At least 2%, and possibly as many as 20%, of those children died at the schools. Many of them were buried in unmarked graves, and there aren\u2019t many records of the deaths.<\/p>\r\n
For more details, see Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n (Side note, lest anyone think that Canada was alone in this behavior: the US did similar things<\/a>, over a longer period.)<\/p>\r\n This has all been in the news lately because recently, nearly 1,000 unmarked graves have been found at two former residential-school sites, and there are presumably many more that haven\u2019t yet been found.<\/p>\r\n Here are a couple of recent articles on these topics:<\/p>\r\n