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Canadian sanatoriums and Indian Hospitals are InFocus this week.
Many Canadians are only beginning to learn about the atrocities that took place at Indian Residential schools and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is bringing the stories of survivors forward.
A deeper look into those decades reveals that children faced more than just the horrors of residential schools.
Last year, APTN reported that First Nation children were being used for nutritional experiments. Then it emerged children were also used as test subjects for tuberculosis vaccine trials in the 1930s and 1940s at a sanatorium in southern Saskatchewan.
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