The residential school legacy has been linked to the overrepresentation of indigenous children in care.
The revelations that there are hundreds of indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools have shaken Canadians. They have also increased calls for changes to the country's foster care system, where indigenous children are vastly overrepresented.
Residential schools operated for over a century, part of an historical programme to forcibly assimilate indigenous youth into white society. Concerns about Canada's foster care system, and the unjust treatment of indigenous children, are not new. Beginning in the 1880s, some 150,000 First Nations, Métis, or Inuit children were taken away from their families to be placed in residential schools. The last of these institutions closed in 1996.
As the residential school system was wound down in the middle of the 20th Century, new child welfare policies were enacted that allowed government officials to take thousands of indigenous children into care, with little or no warning to their families.Canada's "Sixties Scoop" saw indigenous children taken from their families. Now survivors are mapping out their stories
Only 3% of the calls the organisation receives result in a child being removed from their parent or guardian, says Schiffer.Prime Minister Trudeau, with Chief Cadmus Delorme, visits the site where Cowessess First Nation found hundreds of unmarked graves
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