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U. of Manitoba President Apologizes for How Native Tribes Were Educated

David Barnard, president of the University of Manitoba, on Thursday became the first Canadian university president to formally apologize for the residential schools that were formerly used in the country to educate many Native Canadians, with the goal of assimilating them into the dominant white culture....

Read entire article at Inside Higher Ed