This also happened to our native brethren here in New Mexico and America as well. Breaks my heart. I love the native people

I generally had no idea this happened - it’s beyond horrific

As a Native American(Kiowa) my heart goes out to all my native people in Canada and the U.S 🪶🤎

Can’t even imagine the generational trauma this has caused and is causing to people’s lives. Yet ignorant folly people are quick to say “it’s in the past move on”

This is heartbreaking. My grandmother went to an Indian school in Oklahoma but our traditions were kept intact. May the Great Spirit bless these souls with peace and comfort in time.

The women at the very end broke my heart watching her cry. But then to see the hope in her eyes at the very last second after singing. I hope she does well healing and breaking the cycle of pain. ♥️

The children did not "die", they were killed. I have much respect for 60 Minutes, but they need to get the title right.

"that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield" - Nuremburg trials. The Catholic church, nuns and priests, Canada should be held criminally responsible and punished for crimes against humanity.

Loved the lady who was planning on stopping the cycle of abuse's powerful singing as she walks through the halls of what's left of her school.

As a Canadian, I'm glad this is finally becoming more well-known and widespread. Remember learning the history of residential schools and the continuing impact on communities in British Columbia when I was in high school back in 2010 and was surprised how uncommon that is and how most of the country never did. Canada has a much darker past and history than people care to realize.

When she was singing Hail Mary HER way I got goosebumps & tears. I'll pray for every one of those poor souls who didn't deserve the atrocities done to them🌈💕✌🏻🇬🇧

My grandma survived the schools she remembers digging her cousins graves. She remembers hiding her little Brother in the crawl space when they came for the children she has stories that would make you cry we need to make this know what they did to our elders

Wow. What can you even say about the pain heaped on these poor children and their families? Just absolutely horrendous.

This (for want of a better term) genocide also occurred in Australia when successive governments removed Aboriginal children from their families. Canada apparently set a horrible precedent that other nations unfortunately followed.

Let's remember that these wicked people took over and are still here. This wasn't long ago. Disgusting murders, theives and destroyers of the earth.

What an unthinkable tragedy. I cry. I'm ashamed of mankind. It needs to be said, this is how we learn and evolve into better people.

Absolutely disgusting! It happened here in Australia to the aboriginals. I'm a white Australian but am so appalled and ashamed of what the government did to our natives or any country that this happens in. It's so horrible

This happened here in the USA as well!

I realize this is about Canadian Residential Schools but this bleed over from the United States. The governments of both the United States and Canada have BRASS BALLS for criticizing any other government for their violations of human rights.

Thank you 60 minutes for coming to my homelands (Touchwood Hills) talking to my community and its members to share our trauma to the world!

Yes yes yes, never forget and never stop talking about this. Anyone subject to any institution like this must have suffered endlessly. Glad my grandmother was not sent to one. She was found on a boxcar and raised by a women who took her in.

Infuriating ignorance to harm such beautiful beings. May all receive the love and healing they deserve

I take issue with the title. These children didn't just "die." They were murdered.

There were over 350 of those "schools" in the US, think of the unmarked graves there. Going to school in the 50s and 60s in the segregated south I read about Jim Thorpe in the school library. Taught my kids, grand, and great grandkids about our ancestors atrocities. Didn't harm them at all, made them better human beings.

It is a stain on Canada that needs to be fully studied, explored, and reconciled. As a Canadian I am ashamed.

My dad is a boarding school survivor. When the Cree woman was describing the meanness I broke down in tears cause I knew exactly what she meant. The removal created trauma beyond measure.

I can empathize, I was sent to a boarding school, and although you would hope it would be like Hogwarts, it was a military school where much of the same abuse happened. The problem is most were not there by choice, there was racism, and if you were gay, and it was suspected, well it would not be good. After I graduated, I only visited the place once, and I felt that's all I needed to; my heart goes out to all these people who suffered abuse, and humiliation. The wounds never really heal.

Outta sight, outta mind for far to many people. They say Native American tribes in the US are carrying so much generational pain, they don’t know when it will fade away The men and woman doing these interviews today are the strongest survivors

Heartbreaking. In Canada and the US.. We aren't off the hook, either. Just horrible.

Both my parents and all their siblings went through this BS in Canada. Having lived in both the US and Canada,I can honestly say Canada has the US easily beat when it comes to racism and ignorance.

This has happened in every single country across the globe... Disgraceful... Shameful... As a teacher of infants for twenty five years...I cannot forgive a teacher who crosses this moral line... 🇿🇦

When are humans gonna wake up from this self imposed delusion that is religion?

This is so horrific and so hard to watch. I'm catholic and this left me deeply disturbed that my church is responsible for this. I'm absolutely disgusted that the Vatican hasn't addressed this atrocity their members perpetrated upon indigenous children.

What’s shocking is this is known to anyone native I’ve heard of this long ago told to me by my grandma who’s still with us. What’s crazy is how many people shocked by this. They tried to hide this but soon you will see much more stuff like this come up here in the states as well.

The exact same thing happened in the USA.

It's such a very sad story. Mankind has been using religion or insignificant differences as excuses to conduct evil acts of violence for a long long time.

How can humanity possibly reconcile these kinds of atrocities ? I can 't fathom what their thoughts/hearts felt when adults perpetrated unspeakable things upon them.

Unbelievable how evil men can be if you don't look and talk like them. My heart breaks watching this story. CRT should be taught in our high schools. History is just as important as mathematics and technology.

Zero bodies found 60minutes should have to pay to rebuild some of those churches

Horrific crimes are the consistent signatures of religions.

My heart goes out to every survivor and my tears fall for those whose lives were cut short. Any man or woman, Priest or Nun, that would steal the innocence, the very childhood of each of these victims, means those predators are pure evil. It is just unconscionable, unacceptable, definitely inappropriate, inexcusable and unforgivable! How unfortunate that the predators responsible for all the abuse and pain were given the luxury of hiding behind the government and the church. The punishment for them should have fit the crime. Each abuser should have been shown the same "compassion" they showed those children. We walk past monsters on the street, in the stores, at work, etc. We don't recognize them at first sight because they're disguised as human beings. ~APRIL LIPKE

Child Genocide and stealing children for “re-education” also happened in Australia. Australian government has sort of apologised with words but that is where it ends. Many, many Australians still deny it even happened.

It is so important to hear the victims speak about what happened. Sometimes places and words on a script cannot tell what happened like hearing it from the mouths of those who experienced it.

Fu.king SICK . I almost couldn't watch this segment. I cried and felt sick to my stomach

Religious institutions must be monitored closely. In my country these institutions are getting richer day by day, by drawing out high checks as donations from their students for continuing education or bring promoted despite the hefty monthly fees. The education is quite fine, but still it's not worth the following of forced Christian faith in these institutions run by nuns and priests, the most unqualified people in the world. The parents and children of the affected Canada community needs to be consolidated, supported, and be promised that no other beliefs will ever come to influence othe cultures

Very brave of these indigenous people to openly tell their stories despite all of that trauma.

I don’t care how many times I hear about these LIVED experiences, my heart will continue to burst into a millions pieces every damn time! 🤬💔

When are we going to be honest and have a true conversation about what group is responsible for these SYSTEMIC atrocities and hardly ever acknowledge it?

United States government had the same type of schools for the indigenous people of America

It happened here, too. Both of my grandparents on one side of my family went to residential schools. They destroyed entire Tribes. There is still one "Indian school" still operating here in Oregon. I think it went on much longer in Canada, though, and most of ours were Protestant instead of Catholic

Unbelievable! So sad. How could the Government and most of all, churches do this to little children, or anyone? Sick!

I'm Catholic and the Catholic Church has A LOT to answer for!

All these ideas the Canadian government got as how to start these schools and run them n treat them they got fro the US government!! When will our government have these reconciliations and formally apologize and compensate the families who still suffer and have generational trauma from it. I grew up in the City of Portland but am from the Fort peck tribes and didnt realize how bad my people suffered until i moved to the reservation. For 32 years i barely went to any funerals. Maybe 4 or 5 in my whole life at that point. When i moved to the rez 16 yrs ago up to now ive been to more funerals than i can count. Yet our people are still ignored and made to feel invisible. CNN said it during elections. We're something else. Not even human enough to be called native american or indigenous American. Smh. Investigate that!!!

Religion is one of humanity's worst evils.

Never trust people who hide their own sexual feeling and teach others that it's wrong to have them.

They did this to my grandmother in New Mexico.They forced them to speak english.They were forced to do other things as well.Never knew until I got older what my grandmother ment when she said she was forced in school not to speak navajo.They also did it to the children who spoke Spanish in the surrounding areas.

"the abuse the children suffered at the hands of Catholic priests..." Has there been a more oft-spoken phrase in recent human history?

Why is this not a crime against humanity? Some of the guilty are likely still alive. Hunt them down.

Can't wait until the American episode.

Just an awful experience for these poor children. All in the name of God. Very sad.

The powers then and now are sick people 💯 madness 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Long after slavery was abolished in the USA, long after laws were enacted that made women *no longer* regarded as property of men, long after segregation was made illegal, Native American people in the USA as well as indigenous people of Canada were still horribly mistreated in the USA & Canada. Native American people are still feeling the repercussions of attempts to exterminate them in the most un-atoned for genocide.

It's about time somebody finally did this story and started telling the truth !

This happened to Native Americans throughout the Americas, North, Central and South America, all the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. I am grateful to 60Minutes for its empathetic coverage of this story. More will come out with time.

Oh wee Canada you got some skeletons in the closet as well. I'm pretty certain at most schools especially boarding schools it's not normal to have 35 of your class mates die for various reasons. I lost maybe 4 or 5 classmates during my entire school career and not one happened at school. I know times were much different back then but making things like this aware to the public will hopefully teach people what not to do in the future.

60 minutes did not do their homework correctly. There were over 5,500 graves found to date and no mention of the children's Graves in the USA at all. Of the more than 200,000 Natives murdered in the northern hemphismire, 60 minutes did not do their homework. These immigrants did not do their homework.

It's scary how little schools talk about events like this... If they even talk about it all.

I'm so sorry for the heartbreak that spans generations. They deserve and need justice. I'm so happy for Ed Bitternose that he can now tell his wife he loves her and he is raising bison while connecting with his Cree roots.

I can't even imagine the pain 💔 😢

People should start to give more respect and recognition to indigenous people of North America.......

i only learned that this actually happened from watching a show called anne with an e, it displays a girl named ka'kwet who gets taken away and every time she spoke her language she would get punished in awful ways. the fact that this actually happened just breaks my heart.

Thank you for having this 💛😊✨

So so sad !! I’m so sorry to all involved with this torture

This was also the case in Australia... I believe the movie was called rabbit proof fence.. In which children were kidnapped By the Catholic Church. Then again what else is new?

Who's gonna be the one to tell CBS the same thing happened here in the U.S.? 🤔

I cannot fathom the misery and pain these innocent children had to endure!! How does this happen??? WTF????

Holy crap I didn’t realize this kinda thing was happening in the 1900s!

For awful I'm so sorry this happened to these beautiful people

WOW how heartbreaking 😢 I couldn't imagine going through something like that. Glad that they're shining a light on it. I wonder what in the world ppl were thinking back then, when I hear something horrific like this. They were innocent children it makes me angry when I hear stuff like this!!!

Although I’m from England what happened to the indigenous children in those barbaric residential schools is indeed heartbreaking 💔 just shows that all these false prophets who teach a false Christ are using God as an excuse to do such terrible things, committing atrocities they’re the religious hypocrites that Jesus warned about. God bless K on mum’s account

Still waiting since 1964 to have my adoption nullified, and take back my legal birth certificate. And not have that authority or custody be given back to my biological relatives or their relatives. As a child I was legally removed from an abusive and dysfunctional group of people, and placed into another dysfunction and abusive group of people. I am in need of a lawyer to represent me. I am okay with going to the United States Supreme Court. This is as important as: Brown vs The Board of Education. Several law enforcements, the AG of CA., and the ACLU are a few organizations that have been informed. There should have been federal legislation and laws written centuries ago; making it easier for adopted people to have their adoption nullified. Regardless of their age. How come my birth certificate doesn't have the word: Adopted? This should be mandatory for all adopted people. The United States government and judiciary system failed to inform adopted people; upon being adopted their legal problems would begin.

To the indigenous peoples of turtle island, my heart bleeds for you. I pray the love and peace I send out to you finds you and starts to heal. To those in governments and in the church, although you may not be the ones to blame, you bear their shame. You have some big apologies to make. Do it. It’s far past time. 🧡🕊

It’s so sad how many people don’t know the actual truth. I can’t believe there was a school open that long. Heartbreaking 💔

This also happened in the US.

Whats hurts even today is that I felt no familiarity to my family when I saw them in 76 after I ran away. You know there your brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, grandmother and my mother and you know you share the same blood but thats where it ends. They are just more strangers. My dad spent the rest of his life on the run until he died because they charged my mom and dad with kidnapping the first time they came and took us home. My brothers got sent to the Mt. Pleasant industrial school in lower michigan but my mom was Canadian and we lived in Soo, Ontario. My dad was from Bay Mills Reservation across the river in Brimley, Mi across the river. My dad was Anishinaabe and Irish and my mom was Metis and Irish.

Let's not be quick to blame (only) Canada. Maybe you should report on the US residential schools too than just mention it in passing. For "THE" book on the Canadian Residential schools read John S. Milloy's "A National Crime".

I went through some abuse with my father when I was a kid . I’m still going through emotional relapse , this video gave me memories I’ve blocked in my memory

Sue the catholic church. Never settle. Ask for a billion. Never settle. Let the jury hear it all. Let the press report it.

Sending love and healing to all the survivors ❤️

This is still happening in many devolving nations, but the media doesn't cover it. Christain missionaries are trying to do the same thing India, but the Indian Civil society is more aware and lobbying the government to take action against this trillion-dollar industry called the church. If proper research is done the number of cases in India will probably be in millions.

I pray for the healing of this terrible crime against humanity🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 May these souls find healing.

Religion in the hands of humanity perpetuates nothing but these kinds of tragedies

"you can't move to reconcilation, until you accept the truth" So true.

I’m glad you’ve taken the time to talk about this but you need to do the same for the US. Also you need to investigate poorhouses or work homes also in the US.

How Native Americans suffered (Still suffering with poverty) in both the US and Canada is unbelievable. Just think that they were the original habitants in both countries and yet they were almost wiped out by immigrants coming over from Europe and elsewhere. Really breaks my heart.

It always stuns me how those seen as authoritarian decide who and what is beneath them. Then, they think they can dictate how to treat them. It does not matter what skin covers the bones, it is the arrogance and inhumanity that is in their minds.

…this is so horrible my heart hurts and my gut is in knots. I want to say so much more, but it’s difficult to find the words.

Anyone alive that had anything to do with putting these kids in the schools and keeping them their need to pay.

The only thing "uncivilized" is the Canadian government for doing this

My ancestors(The French Acadien) Acadians came from Nova Scotia to America went through kinda the same situation after being relocated in America during the great deportation because they were forbidden to speak their language of French heritage when they were kicked out of Canada in 1755-1763 when they refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain so the British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council ordered the Acadians to be expelled from Canada and once arriving in America they were treated as though they weren’t even humans and were forbidden to speak their language and some had their children taken from them also. Today I’m Proud to be a Descendent of My French speaking Great Grandparents and My Grandparents that had never learned to speak English but my mother and father refused to teach us french because of the punishments and the belittling they endured on the school grounds in America 😢 (remember their parents couldn’t communicate in English)