Churches starting to face facts on boarding schools
Credit: In this 1910s photo provided by the United Church of Canada Archives, students write on a chalkboard at the Red Deer Indian Industrial School in Alberta. In Canada, where more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended residential schools over more than a century, a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified 3,201 deaths amid poor conditions. In the U.S., churches and the government are beginning to look at their assimilationist past. (United Church of Canada Archives via Associated Press)
