Read this and weep: The ugly truth about residential schools – TheRecord.com
We shouldn’t even be calling them “residential schools.” They were prisons, run by sadists.
In the late 1870s, indigenous children were forced by the Canadian government to leave their families so that they would no longer be “savages.”
The children were relocated to these abusive, violent institutions About 180,000 aboriginal children were housed in 140 schools across the country. The last one closed in 1996. About 80,000 survivors are still alive.
At a recent discussion hosted by the Themuseum in downtown Kitchener, survivors of the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford spoke about life there. I wept as I listened.
Students lost their names when they arrived. They were given a number instead.
