RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL LEGACY All native children were forced by law to go to residential schools from 1831 and parents were forced by hunger, jail, and other punishments to let their children be taken. And so many didn’t get home either. Death, brutality, disease and shame-indoctrination for their heritage and culture; exportation to other parts of the country (sent to TB facilities and let loose not knowing where home was) and adoption into white families; mental health was destroyed leading to alcoholism, drugging, PTSD and suicide; discrimination preventing employment, education and medical assistance; de-parented, de-languaged, de-cultured. Families relocated to un-arable un-sustainable land, their ancestral homes having been given to white people. Did you know, Residential Schools were still in existence until 1995? Did you know, First nations people were only granted citizenship in Canada in 1947? First Nations women were excluded from the federal vote until 1960, but actively discouraged from doing so for another 2 decades. Active removal of native children and placement into white homes (numbers difficult to determine) possibly as many as 50,000 in the decades from 1960 – 1980. Today, many Native communities do not have clean drinking water. Oh, it would take volumes to complete the list.