Comment by PH95VuimJjqBqy

> Many indigenous wanted their kids to go to these schools

For a bit more background, see my other reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256850

But I wanted to address this idea that somehow it's alright because the parents were ok with it.

My grandparents sent their children to this school partly because they couldn't afford to feed them and partly because my grandfather (a white man) wanted them there. My mother used to tell me stories of my grandmother going out into the woods and picking berries and hunting just to feed them.

Don't mistake a family sending their children to these schools for responsibility for what happened there or condoning it.