Thank you for posting these. At another time in my life, I would have expected this to be front-page news, but I rarely talk to anyone who's even heard of residential schools.

@Lauren I first became aware of the schools reading the Jim Thorpe story, but I really started to see the Apartheid element in 1974 at the South African pavilion at Expo 74. They were white washing what they were doing in SA, but I saw the same thing happening in the Indian reservations around Spokane and through out the west, with the same explanations that the South Africans were using.

@glennlab Wow, that far back! And an apt connection.

If not for Canadian friends, I would probably be fairly oblivious. But those were stories of abuse, "disappearances," and graveyards of aborted babies. It was only the last few years that the mass graves have confirmed that the more outlandish claims were more than stories, and I'm appalled yet not surprised.

@Lauren being a liberal in Eastern Washington was just as outlandish as being a liberal in East Texas or South Louisiana, and people were willing to talk to someone that they thought would listen to their stories. I found many of the stories hard to believe, now I realize that they weren't telling the more horrid tales.

So true. I've found Trudeau's response ineffective, but at least he's acknowledged it, whereas it's staying buried quite deeply here.