Researcher87 said:
So Residential Schools didn't occur.
Since you're a mere 19 years old I'll forgive that bit of disingenuous foolishness. Be warned though: it's a losing tactic, every time, against people who have any brains.
Nobody's said that, it's a matter of public record that they did, and that there were abuses and neglect and other assorted nastiness going on at them. What people are saying is that the scale and scope of them has been wildly exaggerated. That always happens when there's a legitimate social cause: the tales get padded, exaggerated, invented, distorted, all in the name of dramatizing the cause and drawing sympathetic attention to it. A key point to remember is that you cannot trust people's memories. Memory is subject to editing and rewriting, so when you hear from an aged aboriginal man something to the effect that he remembers when he was five years old a couple of kids were killed by lethal injection in the next room, he's almost certainly remembering it wrong. You need independent verification of such extraordinary claims, and much better evidence than just people's memories, or you're just going to come across as an inflammatory extremist and you won't be taken seriously. You can see some of that happening in this thread already.
Any psychologist will tell you that eye-witness accounts and memory are extremely unreliable, especially when there's a strong vested interest that they be a certain way. Don't trust memory, or reports of memory, alone. Not even your own.