Yes, and the US had similar systems of oppression and cultural genocide. I've read the term "industrial schools" implemented as a tool of assimilation/oppression (ie, genocide) in the US.
Have you ever watched the video, "Rabbit Proof Fence"? It was a movie made about children in the residential schools in Australia. Our schools are showing it in High School Social Studies classes. Canada has a similar docu-drama, which shows the story of the mother of my nephew. Her name was Lyna Hart. It's called "We Were Children".
I'm so glad that more and more nations around the world are talking about this. It is yet one more holocaust in the books of human history - and educating ourselves about it is one way to ensure this atrocity is never committed again against innocent children and communities.
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