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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Last residential school was closed in 1996. Not that 50 years ago would have been too long anyways.
I mean, it's part of the problem in this very case. She was speaking in the Atikamekw language, but unlike say German or Spanish, these nurses didn't recognize her language as anything but gibberish. And that's because our past government went a long way in trying to destroy languages like Atikamekw.
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That's a bit disingenuous as the residential school program that we really reference was discontinued long before that. 50 years isn't a long period of time. But it's long enough to have it be "historical" rather the currently relevant as a data point that society is "systemically racist".