Most of them didn't die, they were just taken to shitty schools where a lot of claims of discrimination and abuse of various sorts were reported and all that kind-of hit a fever-pitch when attendance was made mandatory for about fifty years.
The point of the schools was to help Native kids integrate into European society, but the mandatory attendance makes it look like they were aiming to eliminate the culture entirely.
Also the system was apparently a total failure and we just ended up with a bunch of poorly educated Natives.
Also something like 6000 kids did die.
Just because we're imprisoned doesn't make us less Canadian just less free. Also, I'm pretty sure saying his name should be considered a crime of some sort.
The point of the schools was to help Native kids integrate into European society, but the mandatory attendance makes it look like they were aiming to eliminate the culture entirely.
Also the system was apparently a total failure and we just ended up with a bunch of poorly educated Natives.
Also something like 6000 kids did die.