CANADA
Courthouse News Service
By DARRYL GREER
VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) – Canada unfairly excluded from a monetary settlement Native American students who suffered abuse at residential schools, but did not live at them, according to a federal class action.
Two Native American bands claim Canada unconstitutionally excluded people harmed by residential schools from a settlement reached in 2006.
By their chiefs, members of the Tk’emlups Te Secwepemc Indian Band and the Sechelt Indian Band claim that Canada’s residential school policy “was designed to eradicate Aboriginal culture and identity and assimilate the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada into Euro-Canadian Society.”
“Through this policy, Canada ripped away the foundations of identity for generations of Aboriginal People and caused incalculable harm to both individuals and communities,” the complaint states.
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