Canadian Residential Schools

Between the 1870s and the 1990s, Canada's federal government took more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children from their families and forced them to attend church-run residential schools designed to assimilate them by stripping them of their own languages and cultures.

A national inquiry revealed the extent of abuse and neglect the children faced in those schools. The Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) Commission of Canada has found evidence that 4,100 children died of disease, mal...

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该数据集记录了19世纪70年代至20世纪90年代期间，加拿大联邦政府强制超过15万名原住民儿童进入教会经营的寄宿学校，以剥夺其语言和文化的方式进行同化。国家调查显示，这些学校存在广泛的虐待和忽视，证据表明有数千名儿童因此死亡。