Indigenous delegates from Canada’s First Nations visit the Vatican amid calls for  Pope Francis to apologise for abuses against Indigenous people at residential schools in the country between 1831 and 1996.

The system removed about 150,000 indigenous children from their families and brought them to Christian residential schools run on behalf of the federal government.

A Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)  set up to investigate the impact of the residential school system said in 2015 that children were malnourished, beaten and abused as part of a system that it called “cultural genocide.”

From 2007 to  2015, the Government of Canada provided around $72 million to support the TRC‘s work  https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1450124405592/1529106060525

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