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  Yeah, the US has yet to deal with that issue, but it's coming. Two years ago I sent my donation budget to an Indian organization trying to get justice for that in America. Genocide is never pretty.
context: “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
  Canada was not alone in the horrors of the Residential School System. Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first of around 150 other such schools that dealt with assimilation of the Native people by taking away their cultural identities. Some were run by Religious Institutions others governmental and private groups, the only thing in common was the desire to kill the Indians and have them fit the mold they wanted. Canada is dealing with their history and treatment of their Indigenous people. Unfortunately America still has a reckoning with its history of our Native people. >
  
  That we do. >
  
  And lest anyone try the "but it was so long ago!" tactic - I'll be 40 next year, so relatively young.  These schools were going until I was a middle-schooler.  The last one closed in 1998. >
  
  I played volleyball against some residential schools in the early 90’s. Definitely not that long ago. >
  
  They're not a huge story here in the US, but my local NPR station plays "As It Happens" on weekday nights, so I've heard a lot about them in the past few years.  At first I was like "man, that's so shitty they did that stuff back then.  What the fuck."
  Then, I heard that they were doing it until I was 14, and I was fucking shocked.