The schools were part of a government policy to strip indigenous children of ties to their culture and communities in order to assimilate into white society.
The schools were part of a government policy to strip indigenous children of ties to their culture and communities in order to assimilate into white society.
People across Canada will wear orange to draw more attention to the church- and government-run residential school system that took thousands of indigenous children from their families from the 1830s to 1990s.