Yeah I don't remember learning any of this in grade school growing up 20-30 years ago. There was aboriginal history, but nothing about residential schools or the impact of the church/federal government on their rights.
Maybe that was by design. I think learning about this later in life - and waiting until basically adulthood to have a greater respect and understanding - is a huge mistake and I wish I could go back and change that. I hope kids are taught about this earlier in life, in the same way of the atrocities of war, genocide and other dark historical moments of humankind.
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