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Renamed, shamed. Searching for an Indigenous boy’s true identity

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What to Do With Derogatory Names Like This?

The national centre for for truth and reconciliation, of course, made this scroll with with all these names to honor the lives of these children who never came home. Oftentimes a death of a child at school will just be mentioned in passing or might be jotted down in the margins of a record. And oftentimes that's the only information that we have to go off of. So that it was really hard for them to to make that decision to release all these names. But he said, you know, regardless of how difficult and how sensitive and how disrespectful it might be to some boty's children, keeping that information back would do more harm than making a public name available.

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