June 1, 2008
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7430270.stm
A truth and reconciliation commission examining what native leaders call one of the most tragic and racist chapters in Canada's history has begun.
The commission will study Canada's decades-long policies that removed Aboriginal children from their families to force Christianity upon them.
The state-funded religious schools were often the scenes of horrific physical and sexual abuse.
The commission has a five-year mandate to detail the abuses.