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This week, animated videos on Instagram: The abuses of Canada's Indian Residential Schools
maggie soladay
Jun 21, 2016
The U.S. and Canadian governments began to try to control First Nations culture by criminalizing dances, ceremonies, spirituality, and language. Residential schools were an extension of that attempt to diminish and whitewash First Nations identity that continued until nearly the close of the 20th century.
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