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At least 3,000 native children died in residential schools: research
Colin Perkel, Canadian Press|Feb 19, 2013
At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada’s Indian residential schools, according to new unpublished research. While deaths have long been documented as part of the disgraced residential school system, the findings are the result of the first systematic search of government, school and other records. “These are actual confirmed numbers,” Alex Maass, research manager with the Missi...