To Montreal
These are the boarding schools of shame. For one hundred and fifty years, religious congregations carried out a forced “assimilation” of thousands of native children in Indian residential schools (Indian boarding schools), marked by many abuses and many excesses. Schoolchildren were beaten there, often raped, sometimes killed. Canadian Heritage (Culture) sums up the residential school drama. At least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children attended these institutions (…), which were run by churches and funded by the federal government as an essential element of colonialism. This system was imposed Indigenous peoples (…) in a deliberate effort of assimilation aimed at the destruction of their cultures and the destruction of their history”.
Indian residential schools date from 1883, although some were built as early as the 1830s. The Anglican and Presbyterian Churches…
Source: Le Figaro
