Negation Aspiration vol. 286

 From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died.

Mass grave with remains of 215 children found at Indigenous school in Canada, an 'unthinkable loss'