Indigenous Americans call for justice over residential schools

Indigenous Americans call for justice over residential schools
Nancy Chen
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Canadians are confronting an ugly truth. For more than a century, their government separated Indigenous children from their parents and placed them in residential schools where they were forced to assimilate. Hundreds did not survive. 
Indigenous activists shine a light on the history of residential schools
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Similar schools also existed in the U.S. 
After the horrors and unexplained deaths recently revealed at former Indigenous residential schools in Canada, come renewed calls for justice at more than 350 similar schools in the U.S.
"There are many, many lives affected here," said Willie Johnson. "Not only from the students that perished here, but their descendants."

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