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Jul 2021
26m 24s

State-Sponsored Abuse in Canada

The New York Times
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This episode contains accounts of physical and sexual abuse. The residential school system was devised by the Canadian government under the auspices of education, but very little education took place. Instead, children were taken from their families in order to wipe out Indigenous languages and culture. In 1959, when Garry Gottfriedson was 5, he was sent t ... Show More
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