Reddit reviews A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System (Manitoba Studies in Native History)
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How long have you been alive?
Do you not know about the residential schools (they were only shut down in the 70s/80s)? How about the fact that until the 50s/ 60s native people were not allowed to leave thier reserves without permission from a white guy? The treament of native people in Canada has been horrendous, it has only been in very recent decades that the gov't has begun "bending over backwards".
Watch the video posted below. go to www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
read this book: http://www.amazon.ca/National-Crime-Canadian-Government-Residential/dp/0887556469
Canada has a dark and disturbing history my friend.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6637396204037343133&ei=B5ToSrqeCpTqqAP6k9X0Cg&q=Unrepentant&hl=en
More like the deliberate and criminal underfunding, neglect, abuse and starvation of the generations of kids forced to attend these institutions. All in the hopes of converting them to Christianity, while degrading or destroying their languages, cultures, and family bonds.
Education, nutrition, and vocational training were the lowest priorities in most of these cheaply built, ramshackle schools where disease spread quickly and where the kids had to spend a majority of their time farming in order to supplement the inhumane lack of supplies they had to live with.
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