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Mel H. Buffalo, an advisor to the Samson [Cree] band in Hobbema, Alberta, reported that "every Indian person I've spoken to who attended these schools has a story of mental, physical or sexual abuse to relate."
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Churchill, Ward (November 2004). w:Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. p. 64. ISBN 0872864340. 
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Churchill's source: Miller, J.R. (May 24, 1996). Shingwauk's Vision: A History of the Indian Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 333. ISBN 0802078583. 

 

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