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Why Do Our “First” Nation Aboriginal People Have To Live Like Third World Refugees?

  Whatever happened to good old Canadian warm heartedness? One fifth of Canada’s population are Aboriginal.  Approximately 1.8 million. A figure that would have been much larger if we had not outright slaughtered the majority of them  when   we first invaded their homeland and decided that it was now OUR lands. Since we arrived we have systematically forced them onto reservations, forced them to hand over their children to be placed in horrific “Residential Schools ”  and   deprived   them of the basic needs and rights that they deserved . These torturous residential schools existed from the 1820’s until the closure of the last so-called “school” in 1996. Yes, you read that correctly – 1996. During the course of the school’s existence it is estimated that 150,000 Aboriginal children died at the hands of the clergymen, Nuns and diseases . To quote Wikipedia: “ The school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of  ...