Here’s Why Canada Mandated its Genocidal Residential Schools
<p>Residential schools were in operation in Canada from 1870 to 1996. Generations of indigenous people from across the length and breadth of the country was decimated by this forced assimilation. The Canadian government <a href="https://www.anishinabek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/An-Overview-of-the-IRS-System-Booklet.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> that it wanted to “civilize” the indigenous peoples by forcing them away from what they perceived as barbarism.</p>
<p>Thankfully, the world is waking up today to the fact that cultures based on ecological sustainability, community-based living, spiritual humanism, and reverence for mother Earth are not barbaric; they’re essential for our species to continue its very existence.</p>
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