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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
The Catholic Church ran schools for non-indigenous kids at the same time but to my knowledge there is no evidence that similar results occurred at those institutions.
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9,000 children died in Church-run homes for unwed mothers and orphans in Ireland between 1922 and 1998.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...her-baby-homes
796 were found in one mass grave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...her-baby-homes
The cultural suppression that was carried out in Canada’s residential schools added a different dimension of cruelty. But the treatment of indigenous children in terms of living conditions, beatings, and vulnerability to abuse was not much different from the lethal callousness with which children were treated in Church-run institutions elsewhere.