The town of Kamloops was where one of the most recent unveilings of atrocities of the residential school system. It was a program to “help” the indigenous people adjust to the colonial usurpation of their lands and way of life.
What it actually resulted in massive mistreatment, atrocities, genocide, and erasure of the students in their care.
A site in Kamloops recently(inside the last 15 years) was revealed to have found another 50 ish bodies that were hidden.
The holiday truth and reconciliation was created a few years ago to acknowledge the problem and it was a big deal because it also was the first time the government of Canada officially acknowledged it
The town of Kamloops was where one of the most recent unveilings of atrocities of the residential school system. It was a program to “help” the indigenous people adjust to the colonial usurpation of their lands and way of life.
What it actually resulted in massive mistreatment, atrocities, genocide, and erasure of the students in their care.
A site in Kamloops recently(inside the last 15 years) was revealed to have found another 50 ish bodies that were hidden.
The holiday truth and reconciliation was created a few years ago to acknowledge the problem and it was a big deal because it also was the first time the government of Canada officially acknowledged it
This is a really high level description, which makes it harder to understand how fucked up it was.
https://nctr.ca/education/residential-school-history/
I really recommend anyone unfamiliar with the history to read at least this one webpage.