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svanegmond t1_iu4khrw wrote

Reply to comment by btmvideos37 in Canada House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by shpydar

Can confirm. I am 50 and knew nothing about this until the first government inquiry into it. The education I got about indigenous peoples was pathetic.

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btmvideos37 t1_iu4medg wrote

Even as a 20 year old, the things kids now learn at the age of 8 I didn’t learn until 14-15. Before 8th grade I was taught that the colonizers peacefully came over here and built log cabins and traded with the natives. I assumed as a kid that have the country was Indigenous. In grade 7-8 we learned more of residential schools and how the colonizers weren’t great people. But it wasn’t until grade 10 that we truly learned about the atrocities.

My sister who’s 6 will go through school learning way more than I ever did

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