Canadian Parliament made a historic (and heroic) gesture, by apologizing to the Native Americans (First Nations) for centuries of atrocities made to them.
http://news.aol.ca/article/Residential-School-Victims-Await-Apology/255153/
I think this is a graceful act. People of First Nations suffered heavily when the newly arrived European settlers (English and French), drunk in arrogance, persecuted people of First Nations.
One example of this persecution is taking the children away from these people and putting them to missionary schools and forcing then to learn English or French and become Christian. This is nothing short of a cultural genocide.
Congratulations to people of First Nations on achieving this apology from Prime Minister himself.
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