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Leader to apologize to Indian nations
May 16, 2008
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Canada — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will deliver a public apology for a decades-long government policy requiring Canadian Indians to attend state-funded church schools — often scenes of physical and sexual abuse.
Harper will make the apology in Parliament on June 11 to Canada’s First Nations, a collection of Indian groups that have been seeking such an acknowledgment for years.
From the 19th century until the 1970s, tens of thousands of aboriginal children were required to attend church-run schools in a painful attempt to rid them of their native cultures and languages and integrate them into Canadian society.
The federal government admitted 10 years ago that physical and sexual abuse in the once-mandatory schools was rampant.
That legacy of abuse and isolation has been cited by Indian leaders as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on reservations.
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16 May 2008 at 7:59 a.m.
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smitty (Anonymous) says…
Do you suppose these apologies will **trickle down** to the USA?
16 May 2008 at 8:58 a.m.
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kubacker (Anonymous) says…
They're too busy in this country counting the millions of $$ in tax free money that pours daily into their bank accounts from their casinos, gas stations and ciggarette stores.
16 May 2008 at 9:06 a.m.
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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus (Anonymous) says…
More accurately, they're busy trying to collect $billions that the federal government has failed to pay them according to treaties.
16 May 2008 at 9:14 a.m.
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JackRipper (Anonymous) says…
God forbid that they receive tax free money in a country that was not only stolen but stolen breaking the white man's law. And we all know what a quality life so many of the Native Americans live with the highest suicide rate and alcohol and drug addiction. Must be just peachy on the little reservations they were allowed to keep. So many Native Americans helped the white man not knowing that it would ultimately lead to their demise. We ought to be embarrassed.
16 May 2008 at 9:43 a.m.
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just_another_bozo_on_this_bus (Anonymous) says…
“Would that be billions in 19th century dollars boz?”
No, if they went that far back, the amount would surely be in the $trillions.
Most of it is for failure to turn over funds collected for such things as royalty payments for oil was extracted from their lands, which was collected by the Interior Dept., but never paid to the tribes as it is supposed to have been.