There is nothing in the article or my comments that says otherwise.

Edited to add: I now see where you are coming from. The article states, " People from southeast Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba attended the school."

You are right, the CBC's article is misleading in that it doesn't make the forced attendance clear.

Indian Horse, 2017 film. Made from Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese's 2012 book.

Fictional account of young boy kidnapped into the horrors of the church school, his escape, years of societal and inner trauma and abuse and terror. And ultimate redemption.

Hard to watch. But deepened my understanding and empathy.

and the horrendous abuse that took place in them until just recently. Even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report didn't reach the majority of Canadians so the horrors of these unmarked graves is, for too many, the first they are hearing and understanding of this in any depth.

For many indigenous people, the redemption has yet to happen. The trauma of generations of their families being torn apart, their children torn from their arms, their culture, language, beliefs, their very names forcibly removed, remains. It was, as described in the TRC findings, cultural genocide, to say the least.

Val Kilmer's about the schools and being punished for speaking his own language.

names like "Johnny John" instead of their tribal name. The tragedy continues as the trauma of multiple generations still endures. Everything that gave the children their identity was removed, everything.

There are mass graves around the sites of former residential schools across the country. The system has been in place from Canada's founding to the LATE 90'S. The government and the church both have blood on their hands and that blood is still wet.