Until the 1950s, indigenous children at residential schools in Canada died at between two and five times the rate of their peers elsewhere in the country
in Canada in recent months, on sites of five former residential schools for indigenous children. In response, protesters tore down statues of colonial-era figures and some cities cancelled Canada Day celebrations, usually held on July 1st. On June 22nd Deb Haaland, the United States’ first indigenous secretary of the interior, announced an investigation into her own country’s boarding schools for Native Americans.
Some schools were run by churches and funded by the government . Others were directly government-run. Children were forbidden from speaking their native languages. Many were physically and sexually abused, and some were made to work for white families. The Canadian and American governments punished parents who refused to send their sons and daughters. In 1895, 19 men from the Hopi tribe were sent to prison on Alcatraz for refusing to do so.
The last of Canada’s residential schools closed in the 1990s, but some of America’s are still open today. Around 150,000 indigenous children in Canada passed through them between the 1870s and 1990s. Similar data for America do not exist. That is, in part, because the country has not held a truth and reconciliation commission, as.
More discoveries of unmarked graves in Canada are likely. And of those that have been found, it is still unclear who was buried or how they died. According to the ?aq’am, an indigenous group that located graves at one of the sites, some burials may have originally been marked by wooden crosses that decayed over time. Investigations may locate unmarked graves at schools in America too. There is still much to unearth.
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