Canada’s Forced Schooling of Aboriginal Children Was ‘Cultural Genocide,’ Report Finds

 Aboriginal Canadians were forced to attend boarding schools like this one in the Northwest Territories, shown around 1936.Library and Archive of Canada

OTTAWA — Canada’s former policy of forcibly removing aboriginal children from their families for schooling “can best be described as ‘cultural genocide.’ ”

That is the conclusion reached by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission after six years of intensive research, including 6,750 interviews. The commission published a summary version on Tuesday of what will ultimately be a multivolume report, documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend.

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