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The records on our site emerge from the cultural and physical genocide that the Canadian government and churches conducted through the Indian Residential School System, including the ongoing impacts.

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The story of a national crime : being an appeal for justice to the Indians of Canada
The Story of a National Crime

The Story of a National Crime: An Appeal of Justice to the Indians of Canada

1922
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Dr. P. H. Bryce published his report The Story of a National Crime: An Appeal of Justice to the Indians of Canada based on the unreleased survey of 35 residential schools he conducted for the Department of Indian Affairs. The report detailed the poor health conditions at residential schools. Although Bryce was not the only doctor to protest conditions at schools, his was the first report distributed to the public at large on the disease and death rates at residential schools. 

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