Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
There is arguably no greater shame in the entire history of my country. Conditions are still terrible for the descendants of the survivors. The reserves here are basically little patches of the third world; poverty for the vast majority of First Nations people is a fact of life. All of the social problems that they are suffering from right now (alcoholism/drug addiction, high incidents of child neglect/abuse) can be traced back to the residential school system in which the Canadian government forcibly took children from their homes and confined them in religious schools in an attempt to "assimilate" them. It's a national disgrace.
A lot of similarities with the Aborigines in Australia.