Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.
It’s horrifying that my country is full of so many of these bigots who firmly deny the truth that Canada genocided the indigenous populations. And RECENTLY.
Nor do I think they understand how long it went on for, and how many generations were subjected to these schools. According to the Wiki, the first opened in 1828, with a boom of new schools opening from the 1860’s onward.
From the the time the first school opened to the time the last closed: 169 years.
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It’s horrifying that my country is full of so many of these bigots who firmly deny the truth that Canada genocided the indigenous populations. And RECENTLY.
I don’t think enough people realize just how recent this happened. The last residential school closed down in 1997.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_residential_schools_in_Canada
Nor do I think they understand how long it went on for, and how many generations were subjected to these schools. According to the Wiki, the first opened in 1828, with a boom of new schools opening from the 1860’s onward.
From the the time the first school opened to the time the last closed: 169 years.
I’m horrified.