truth and reconciliation day in Canada

truth and reconciliation day is a day when canada remembers residential schools, and honours the survivors of residential schools. residential schools were institutions that the indigenous children of canada were forced to go to. these schools were often violent and abusive to children, forcing them to assimilate to European culture and customs, leaving indigenous peoples with generational trauma. Canada recognized that these developments were inhumane, and the last school closed in 1996. because of this, canada chooses September 30th (the day the children were sent to these schools) to pause, recognize the wrong that European settlers did to the first peoples, and celebrate indigenous culture.

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