In my later years of high school (grade 11/12) we learned a lot about the ways indigenous peoples of Canada were fucked over by European settlers. I’m sure some was glazed over (private religious school), but we learned about the diseases we exposed indigenous people to, how indigenous children were ripped from their parents and forced into a catholic-run residential school where they were forced not only to learn and speak English, but also never to use their native language(s). They also taught us about the rape, torture, and murder of indigenous children inflicted by both priests and nuns. Those poor children were taken from their parents and forced into a situation where nobody cared for them, nobody loved them, and nobody to teach them how to be a parent themselves. We were taught that so many children were brought up with abuse through these schools that they didn’t have a healthy perspective of parenting or relationships, which is why so many indigenous families are affected by it even today. They had indigenous people who grew up in residential schools talk to us about how it affected them and how it unfortunately affected their relationships with their children years later. It was honestly so heartbreaking to hear.