Canada and the Catholic Church took indigenous children away from their families and put them in what the called residential schools, where the kids had no advocates and were abused mentally, physically, and sexually.
Recently, there have been church burnings in Canada. While listening to a podcast (CBC Front Burner) about that, I learned that the
unmarked graves of 215 indigenous children on residential school grounds have been discovered.The gruesome discovery took decades and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, the confirmation that children as young as 3 were buried on school grounds crystallizes the sorrow they have carried all their lives.
And then
another 750 unmarked children's graves were discovered.
Just absolutely jaw-dropping.
I have to say this immediately made me forget about the burning of some empty buildings. Imagine someone taking your children away, abusing them, then killing them, then telling you that they don't know what happened to them.
Honestly, there is no way the institutions or individuals that killed all of these kids will have to make up for what they've done.