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Re: The remains of 761 people, mainly Indigenous children, were found in Canada at the site of a former school

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Horrific!
god damn those Catholics!

Over 750 unmarked graves found near former Indigenous school in Canada, group says
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The school operated from 1899 to about 1996, and the nearby cemetery had been run by the Roman Catholic Church until Cowessess took it over in 1981, CTV News reported.

Delorme emphasized that the findings were of unmarked graves and not a mass gravesite. He said the Catholic Church first removed the cemetery's headstones in the 1960s.
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From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/over-750-unmarked-graves-found-near-former-indigenous-school-canada-n1272281?cid=eml_nbn_20210624&user_email=d60e03639eee858a9d1f722503050fb5c4c275d9e0d473a7e1f6182e26eccb3c&%243p=e_sailthru&_branch_match_id=936686449664224227&utm_medium=Email%20Sailthru


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The remains of 761 people, mainly Indigenous children, were found in Canada at the site of a former school
By: clo2 in ALEA
Thu, 24 Jun 21 5:15 PM 		Msg. 42528 of 54380

The New York Times

BREAKING NEWS

The remains of 761 people, mainly Indigenous children, were found in Canada at the site of a former school, an Indigenous group said.
Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:04 AM EST

The discovery, the largest one to date, came weeks after the remains of 215 children were found on the grounds of another former boarding school in British Columbia.

Both schools were part of a system that took Indigenous children in the country from their families over a period of about 113 years, and housed them in boarding schools, where they were prohibited from speaking their languages and sexually, physically and emotionally abused.

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