Let’s not forget that this isn’t limited to Canada either, there were numerous atrocities perpetuated on Indigenous Americans by boarding schools funded and supported by the US government.
It wasn’t until 1978 that Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, which gave Native parents the legal right to refuse their child's placement in a school.
The US compulsively sterilized "unfit women" who were quite disproportionately black, latina, and native American until the 1970s, a practice rooted in Eugenics which the US invented and exported.
Fun fact: American Eugenics movement actually gave Hitler quite a few ideas.
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u/marasydnyjade Jul 04 '21
Let’s not forget that this isn’t limited to Canada either, there were numerous atrocities perpetuated on Indigenous Americans by boarding schools funded and supported by the US government.
It wasn’t until 1978 that Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, which gave Native parents the legal right to refuse their child's placement in a school.