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	Podcast:		P.E.I. Pulse
	Episode:		Hidden History
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:39:41
	Publish Date:		2021-09-30 03:10:00
	Description:		While P.E.I. didn’t have any Indian Residential Schools, former students of Indian Day Schools experienced the same kind of horrors faced by Indigenous communities elsewhere in Canada. Students who say that the federal campaign of assimilation, including the eradication of Indigenous languages and culture, is very much a part of P.E.I.’s history. P.E.I. had two of these Day Schools in Rocky Point between 1915 and 1922 but most children were forced to attend the day school on Lennox Island. Jessica Doria-Brown brings us the stories of with three former students of the school.
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