> Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be.
Yeah, except one occurred in the past and is now condemned; the other is a present, newly-created reality.
Yeah, except one occurred in the past and is now condemned; the other is a present, newly-created reality.
Do you think the school in 1996 was doing the same things as the schools in, say, 1896? Don't you think it's more reasonable to see the 1996 closure as the end (or near the end) of a longer, continuous process, not a binary state change?
Unsurprisingly, things are more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...