> Canada has apologised for forcing about 150,000 aboriginal children
> to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating
> them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in parliament
> in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoolchildren.
>
> The Canadian government issued a general apology in 1998 but Harper's
> apology yesterday was part a strategy aimed at destroying their
> culture and enforcing assimilation. Some were put in residential
> schools where mistreatment included sexual abuse.
>
> Canada apology for native schools
>
> BBC NEWS:: 2008/06/11 22:38:55 GMT
>
> Canada has apologised for forcing about 150,000 aboriginal children
> to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating
> them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in parliament
> in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoolchildren.
> ...

> Canada has apologised for forcing about 150,000 aboriginal children
> to attend state-funded Christian boardingschoolsaimed at assimilating
> them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made theapologyin parliament
> in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoolchildren.
>
> The Canadian government issued a generalapologyin 1998 but Harper'sapologyyesterday was part a strategy aimed at destroying their
> culture and enforcing assimilation. Some were put inresidentialschoolswhere mistreatment included sexual abuse.
>
> Canadaapologyfor nativeschools
>
> BBC NEWS:: 2008/06/11 22:38:55 GMT
>
> Canada has apologised for forcing about 150,000 aboriginal children
> to attend state-funded Christian boardingschoolsaimed at assimilating
> them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made theapologyin parliament
> in Ottawa, in front of hundreds of ex-schoolchildren.
>
> Theschoolsoperated from the late 19th Century until the 1990s,
> although most of them shut in the 1970s. ...