For over 130 years, Canada's First Nations children were required to attend government-funded Christian schools, known as residential schools. Over 100,000 children were sent to these schools, often far from their families and traditional land, where they faced brutality, hardship, and cultural erasure.
We Were Children
Thousands of First Nations children in Canada were forcibly sent to government-funded Christian schools from 1843 to 1996, with over 100,000 students attending 80 residential schools nationwide.
