sweet info - Canada Settles with Native Groups for Past Abuses

Michele Norris talks with Gloria Galloway, a reporter with the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, about a $1.9-billion settlement between the Canadian government and its aboriginal people. The settlement helps to conclude a long-running controversy over church-run schools in the 19th and 20th centuries, where many native children were taken away from their families to the schools and subjected them to a variety of abuses -- from beatings to rape -- in the name of making the children "Canadian." On Thursday, leaders of the First Nations aboriginal group held a major summit with Canadian leaders.


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