Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Taken From Families, Indigenous Children Face Extreme Rates of State Violence in US

Taken From Families, Indigenous Children Face Extreme Rates of State Violence in US

The plight of Indigenous children recently made headlines, as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a damning report calling the country's long-held policy of removing Native children from their families by force and placing them in state-funded residential schools "cultural genocide." According to the report, even before Canada was founded in 1867, churches were operating boarding schools for Indigenous children, and the last federally supported residential school didn't close until the late 1990s.

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