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BRAINSTORM (Indigenous people & Injustice)

(A picture of Canadian Indigenous Children being seized by the RCMP to be placed in Indian Residential Schools - Painting by Kent Monkman)

Recognition and Reconciliation

Environmental Degradation

Genocide

(Protests led for Land being taken)

Orange shirt day slogan

Revitalization of Culture

Colonization

Residential Schools

Orange shirt day

Closing and Legacy

Long lasting Trauma

Abuse and Neglect

Residential schools were government sponsored institutions in many countries, including Canada and the United States, designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-American culture. Children were taken from their families and communities, forbidden from speaking their native languages, and subjected to cultural erasure and abuse. These schools had devastating impacts on Indigenous communities, causing intergenerational trauma that persists today, for example, Orange shirt day.