Apology offered - Canada’s Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller visited the Peepeekisis First Nation on Aug 3 where he delivered an apology over a social experiment the federal government conducted to force residential school graduates to become farmers.

The federal government has at last formally admitted that a social experiment aimed at forcing residential school graduates to become farmers on the Peepeekisis Farm Colony was a mistake.Canada’s Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller delivered an apology on Wednesday, Aug. 3 for what in fact was a forced labour camp in which the federal government […]

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