At former Indigenous schools, Canada unearths a brutal history
By DW
03 July 2021 |
11:27 am
The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the sites of former Indigenous residential schools across Canada has sparked a long overdue reckoning with the country's colonial past.
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