Canada: & U.S.: Erasing Native American culture
Week – August 23, 2021
The U.S. and Canada are starting to face their history of forcing indigenous children into abusive boarding schools. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. government and religious leaders used compulsory boarding schools to force young Native Americans to give up the languages and cultures of their ancestors, which were considered self-evidently inferior to a Christian, Western-style upbringing. Boarding schools were made mandatory for Native American children in 1891. Canada also coerced at least 150,000 indigenous children into a network of residential schools that were mostly run by the Catholic Church; last June, researchers uncovered 1,148 unmarked graves on the grounds of three schools.
https://theweek.com/us/1003904/erasing-native-american-culture