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University of Sask. researcher gets $1.4 million for residential school research
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized Wednesday to the nation's native people for " a sad chapter in our history acknowledging the physical abuses and cultural damage they suffered during a century of forced assimilation at residential schools. (article 4)
" The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history Harper said in an apology on behalf of the government Wednesday. (article 3)
Today's First Nations youth say the schools the federal government sent their ancestors to continue to cast a long shadow over their families and their communities. (article 10)
SASKATOON - A University of Saskatchewan professor has received a $1.4 million grant to continue his work on how different groups - including the federal government - have tried to make amends for the residential school system. (article 9)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a Parliamentary chamber packed with legislators and aboriginal representatives that there could be no excuses for what happened at the church-run schools, which mainly operated from the 1870s to the 1970s. (article 6)
OTTAWA - For eight years, Thomas Louttit was forced to attend a residential school whose mission was to "Christianize and civilize" Canada's native people. (article 7)
Most schools were operated as "joint ventures" with Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian or United churches. (article 8)
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Source articles
- Legacy of Canada's residential schools (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 375 words)
- Canada apologizes for forcing its native children to assimilate (boston.com, 06/12/2008, 537 words)
- Canadian leader: Assimilation policy 'has no place' (CNN, 06/11/2008, 496 words)
- Canada's native people get a formal apology (L.A. Times, 06/12/2008, 930 words)
- Canada apology for native schools (BBC News, 06/11/2008, 403 words)
- Canada apologizes for abuse of native children (Washington Post, 06/11/2008, 309 words)
- Canada to apologize for abuse to Indians (boston.com, 06/11/2008, 761 words)
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement of apology (cbc.ca, 06/11/2008, 889 words)
- University of Sask. researcher gets $1.4 million for residential school research (cbc.ca, 06/11/2008, 206 words)
- Those too young to have gone to residential schools say they too are affected (cbc.ca, 06/11/2008, 720 words)
- Stolen Children (cbc.ca, 06/11/2008, 453 words)
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