To Montreal
These are the boarding schools of shame.
For a hundred and fifty years, the religious congregations practiced a forced march of "assimilation" of thousands of native children in the Indians Residential Schools (the Indian boarding schools), marked by numerous abuses and many abuses.
School children were beaten, often raped, sometimes killed.
Canada's Department of Heritage (Culture) sums up the tragedy of residential schools:
At least 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children attended these establishments (…) run by churches and funded by the federal government as part of essence of colonialism.
This system was imposed on
indigenous peoples
(…) in a vast set of deliberate efforts of assimilation aimed at destroying their cultures and annihilating their history.”
The Indians Residential Schools date from 1883, although several had been built as early as the 1830s. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches…
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