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Canadian prime minister apologizes for schools intended to "kill the Indian in the child"
On June 11, the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, apologized for the existence of the Indian residential schools, which had deep and lasting harm on many Canadians and has been passed down to younger generations since.
According to CNN, hundred of former students attended this apology, which was referred to as "nothing less than an achievement of the impossible" by Phil Fontaine, chief of Canada's Assembly of First Nations.
The article also references a similar apology earlier this year from the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the Aboriginal community of Australia, where similar stories of abuse and attempts to destroy a culture have haunted a nation.
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