Notre Dame Excluded Indigenous Students

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Court approves class action for Indigenous students integrated into Bonnyville school in '60s, '70s

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An Alberta judge certified a class action for hundreds of former Indigenous students integrated into Bonnyville ’s Notre Dame school between 1966 and 1974 .

Indigenous students bussed to the church-run institution suffered “enormous harm,” including “frequent physical, psychological, and sexual abuse” Lawyer Leighton Grey believes as many as 500 former students may be entitled to compensation.

Canada consented to the class action being certified while the diocese took no position either way.

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