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October 1st is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. “It is a federal holiday in Canada to honour Canada’s residential school survivors, their families and communities, and to publicly commemorate the impact and trauma endured by Indigenous peoples in Canadian residential schools” (Google, 2021).   
          	Residential schools were set up by the Canadian government. Churches ran them. Together, they had the “nominal objective of educating Indigenous children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways of living and assimilating them into mainstream white Canadian society” (UBC, Indigenous Foundations, 2020). Residential schools separated children from their families and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous heritage and culture or to speak their own languages. Christianity was deemed more important than their cultures when it is not.   The last one did not close until 1996, 25 years ago. That is pretty damn recent.   As you all know, hundreds of Indigenous bodies have been found on the sites of residential schools. This is because these innocent children were punished if they did not follow the rules. There was physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse. These schools systematically undermined Indigenous, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit cultures across Canada. The damage done is heartbreaking. Words do no justice for the traumatic events that took place. 
          	I’m disappointed that @Wattpad has done nothing to acknowledge today. Why are Indigenous peoples any different from Black people, Hispanic people, LGBTQ+ people, etc.? First Nations, Inuit, and Metis, and any other Indigenous Peoples, deserve to be recognized.

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This was copied from Wattpad author @reannekennedy17  . She is part of the Metis community, one of the many communities that are affected by this. I wasn't aware of this day or its significance until I saw her post and I wanted it to reach more people even if it was 2 days late. So anyone who isn't her follower, please do visit her account and support her.
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October 1st is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. “It is a federal holiday in Canada to honour Canada’s residential school survivors, their families and communities, and to publicly commemorate the impact and trauma endured by Indigenous peoples in Canadian residential schools” (Google, 2021).   
          Residential schools were set up by the Canadian government. Churches ran them. Together, they had the “nominal objective of educating Indigenous children but also the more damaging and equally explicit objectives of indoctrinating them into Euro-Canadian and Christian ways of living and assimilating them into mainstream white Canadian society” (UBC, Indigenous Foundations, 2020). Residential schools separated children from their families and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous heritage and culture or to speak their own languages. Christianity was deemed more important than their cultures when it is not.   The last one did not close until 1996, 25 years ago. That is pretty damn recent.   As you all know, hundreds of Indigenous bodies have been found on the sites of residential schools. This is because these innocent children were punished if they did not follow the rules. There was physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse. These schools systematically undermined Indigenous, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit cultures across Canada. The damage done is heartbreaking. Words do no justice for the traumatic events that took place. 
          I’m disappointed that @Wattpad has done nothing to acknowledge today. Why are Indigenous peoples any different from Black people, Hispanic people, LGBTQ+ people, etc.? First Nations, Inuit, and Metis, and any other Indigenous Peoples, deserve to be recognized.

saniyashanavas3611

This was copied from Wattpad author @reannekennedy17  . She is part of the Metis community, one of the many communities that are affected by this. I wasn't aware of this day or its significance until I saw her post and I wanted it to reach more people even if it was 2 days late. So anyone who isn't her follower, please do visit her account and support her.
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