Thousands of Kids Died in Residential Schools, Now They're Being Found

Chemawa Indian School in Oregon is the oldest CONTINUALLY operating residential school in the US. It is open right now. They are still removing children from their homes and forcing them into state controlled schools staffed with white Christians. Also there are more Native children in the US foster care system than were ever in the residential school system. This is not the past, its the present.

The saddest part is the last school closed in 1995! This is not ancient history and it continues to this day through the foster care system.

2 years of digging and no children have been found. Shouldn't you do a piece on this false narrative?

The british did the same thing to the Irish, and there Gaelic language. Tyranny is tyranny and it needs to stop all together.

Ok now do this in America as well.

These investigations need to be held in Australia, among many other countries.

The Vatican also needs to pay. It's a sovereign state that funded and staffed these crimes against humanity.

this is only the Canadian side of the story just imagine the scale of the atrocities of American residential schools....

Not a single child has been found. Anomalies have been found. There is no way to know if these are graves without further investigation. The residential schools were certainly horrible, but why have we given up on rational investigation? Why have we simply decided that these anomalies are the graves of indigenous children? Can we approach this important issue with honesty?

We’ve known about this in Canada ever since we were children at least my generation, however this is just further evidence of the horrors that occurred in those residential schools. This shouldn’t alarm any Canadians but the fact that it does is proof of the willful ignorance most Canadians chose to live with.

Jesus this lady is so nonchalant about what shes saying, some of the stuff she says will catch you off guard. Like when she was talking about her friend that died and then paused dramatically and said she committed suicide. And then shes talking about how the principal guy was a pig and then she gets into how he sexually assaulted and molested her in the same sentence so casually. What a strong woman. I hope shes happy and doing good

that lady looked like she wanted to say a whole bunch of derogatory names towards Zimmerman :(

The Canadian government feels so bad they give themselves a paid holiday smh

My grandparents met in boarding school my dad would tell me stories about how they got taken as children away from their parents. Were still here and we won't give up NATIVE STRONG

First Nations-Canada. And next. Native Americans-US. I’m part Native American. I’m partly deeply saddened. Part angry. Well said “No truth. No reconciliation”. Every single child needs to be brought home. Home is their ancestral place of birth. No matter what’s in those locations now.

The expression "skeletons in the closet" is more meaningful now.

We have the same shameful history of residential schools in the US, and when the schools started to close, Indigenous children were funneled into an adoption system that placed them with white families to continue the process of cultural genocide. It's very important to learn about what's happening in Canada, but we in the US are sitting back shaking our heads from a distance and have not yet reckoned with the residential schools on this side of the border and the mass graves of Indigenous children that most certainly exist here.

There are people, mostly on the right side of political parties, land grabbing conservatives still thinks that these were all justified. It just baffles me how evil and inhumane some people can be!

"Indigenous children make up over Half of those in foster care but are just 8% of the youth." This is still war upon our people. I'm in U.S. and my kid was taken and given to a 2 time registered sex offender, 6 time felon because she was too scared to tell on dad. I kept telling and court gave her to him. Now she is a runaway. She just turned 18. I love you Metzli 💖

I had Dr. Supernant as a professor at the U of A and she was an amazing prof, she’s been doing this work for years and I’m glad her work is being recognized.