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Canada Lowers Flags After Bodies Of Children Discovered At Residential School

Eric Quintanar
Canada Lowers Flags After Bodies Of Children Discovered At Residential School
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Canada ordered flags to fly at half-mast Sunday, days after an indigenous community announced that they had found hundreds of bodies at one of the schools that the government placed indigenous children in for decades. 

The school, located in Kamloops, British Columbia, was one of many schools that took in children the Canadian government forcibly removed from indigenous tribes for mandatory assimilation. Many children in those schools were neglected or abused, and some died. 

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