@EvilSandmich @Charles_in_Charge @Escoffier @sickburnbro @vonzeppelin The last residential school closed in 1997. The metis day schools lasted longer.
The #legacyofabuse schools are still open *to this day*. This isn't 'stuck in the past' stuff -- people who went to those schools are still part of our current political context. It was only 2 elections ago that Tristan Durocher was arrested for having a hunger strike to address northern mental health crisis. It was only 1 election ago that we finally changed the child welfare system to keep 'sixties scoop' style abuse in the child welfare system from happening under another name. Right now our government has a policy of kidnapping [mostly natives] and incarcerating them for being high in the wrong place at the wrong time. This will certainly be abused, but the details for this haven't come out yet *because it's still happening*.

We have a long way to go before the residential schools and the harm they caused cease to be currently relevant, and it's not 'living in the past' to acknowledge this.