Yes, we did. So did you. There were residential schools in the USA as well. They just haven't started looking for the bodies yet.
Reckoning with a cross-national history of abuse of Indigenous people.
www.nytimes.com
The U.S. policy designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children has until recent weeks received scant attention from non-native society, government and news med…
nationalpost.com
That's the difference between Canadians and Americans. We've apologized, paid reparations, and are helping find the bodies and heal the harm. We're not trying to pretend it didn't happen or it wasn't that bad, and that the harm done doesn't live on.
Facing this horror has helped white Canadians understand why native Canadians haven't fared well. The campaign to kill their culture and heritage has taken a terrible toll.