The dark legacy of Canada's residential schools, where thousands of children died
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Published 2022-02-06
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All Comments (21)
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This also happened to our native brethren here in New Mexico and America as well. Breaks my heart. I love the native people
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As a Native American(Kiowa) my heart goes out to all my native people in Canada and the U.S 🪶🤎
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The children did not "die", they were killed. I have much respect for 60 Minutes, but they need to get the title right.
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Can’t even imagine the generational trauma this has caused and is causing to people’s lives. Yet ignorant folly people are quick to say “it’s in the past move on”
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This is heartbreaking. My grandmother went to an Indian school in Oklahoma but our traditions were kept intact. May the Great Spirit bless these souls with peace and comfort in time.
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"that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield" - Nuremburg trials. The Catholic church, nuns and priests, Canada should be held criminally responsible and punished for crimes against humanity.
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I generally had no idea this happened - it’s beyond horrific
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As a Canadian, I'm glad this is finally becoming more well-known and widespread. Remember learning the history of residential schools and the continuing impact on communities in British Columbia when I was in high school back in 2010 and was surprised how uncommon that is and how most of the country never did. Canada has a much darker past and history than people care to realize.
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The women at the very end broke my heart watching her cry. But then to see the hope in her eyes at the very last second after singing. I hope she does well healing and breaking the cycle of pain. ♥️
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Absolutely disgusting! It happened here in Australia to the aboriginals. I'm a white Australian but am so appalled and ashamed of what the government did to our natives or any country that this happens in. It's so horrible
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Loved the lady who was planning on stopping the cycle of abuse's powerful singing as she walks through the halls of what's left of her school.
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I realize this is about Canadian Residential Schools but this bleed over from the United States. The governments of both the United States and Canada have BRASS BALLS for criticizing any other government for their violations of human rights.
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This (for want of a better term) genocide also occurred in Australia when successive governments removed Aboriginal children from their families. Canada apparently set a horrible precedent that other nations unfortunately followed.
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Let's remember that these wicked people took over and are still here. This wasn't long ago. Disgusting murders, theives and destroyers of the earth.
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When she was singing Hail Mary HER way I got goosebumps & tears. I'll pray for every one of those poor souls who didn't deserve the atrocities done to them🌈💕✌🏻🇬🇧
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This happened here in the USA as well!
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My grandma survived the schools she remembers digging her cousins graves. She remembers hiding her little Brother in the crawl space when they came for the children she has stories that would make you cry we need to make this know what they did to our elders
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Thank you 60 minutes for coming to my homelands (Touchwood Hills) talking to my community and its members to share our trauma to the world!
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I take issue with the title. These children didn't just "die." They were murdered.
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Yes yes yes, never forget and never stop talking about this. Anyone subject to any institution like this must have suffered endlessly. Glad my grandmother was not sent to one. She was found on a boxcar and raised by a women who took her in.
