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Originally Posted by wireframe
Wow. She's only 65 years old today. It's easy to think of these things as belonging to an ancient past. It's pretty eye-opening to see a picture like that and place it in context.
It reminds me that the last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. That is so messed up.
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I would say all of my native foster kids grand parents went through residential school, every last one, most were abused, none learnt how to parent properly, my job as a foster parent is basically to try and teach some of the parenting skills that the family lost as a result of the residential school system, basic things like cooking skills, having a 'family recipe' for chicken beyond Shake and Bake, things most of us take for granted that we learn from our parents who in turn learnt from their parents.