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Dark Secret | Featured Documentary In 1996, the last residential
school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying
stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the
influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant
"Canadian" culture. Over more than a century, tens of
thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or
forcibly removed from their homes Residential schools were part of an
extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and
administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating
Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.
Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School,
was "picked up" and taken to the school along with four
other children as they walked along a public road to visit his
grandmother. I'm ashamed to say I'm Canadian because of what my
government has done. Ron Short, former RCMP officer "They didn't
put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like
that," he explains. "It was in the routine of the place.
"You didn't speak anything but English. You went to the white
man's school. You went to the white man's church. You wore white
mens' clothes. All those were built in. It wasn't a classroom-type
lecture. It was ingrained in the system." In 2008, the Canadian
government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC),
which finally enabled survivors to give their testimonies on life in
the residential schools. Abuse - mental, physical and sexual - was
rife and, although research and statistics vary, it is estimated that
6,000 children died in these schools. Some evidence puts the
casualties at three times that number. After its formation, the TRC
travelled around Canada for six years, gathering testimony from
thousands who bore witness to the tragedies of the residential
schools. Numerous "Aboriginal healing" programmes were put
in place to help those affected to move on with their lives. -
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