So today is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada. From what I was told, today is a holiday used to bring awareness to the horrors that the Government of Canada put indigenous kids through for years and years and years.
They forced indigenous kids into boarding schools and made them stop using their own languages in an attempt to assimilate them into the white mans culture. They'd punish these kids for using their own languages, sometimes to death. In 2011 (I think that's what my friend told me), they started to find HUGE unmarked mass graves of hundreds of indigenous kids who had been murdered for not assimilating.
This is what this holiday is meant to bring awareness to. This world is fucked.

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