The discovery of unmarked burials of indigenous children who died at a Canadian boarding school — which they were forced to attend — has compelled Canada to offer settlement for legal disputes about forcing indigenous children to attend those schools.

The purpose of these schools (which were spread across Canada) was to disconnect indigenous children from their parents, their culture, and their language. That in itself was cruel, but the schools also practiced direct physical forms of cruelty, including giving the students inadequate food.

Canada set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the crimes of those schools, but has not implemented its recommendations.