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After the discovery of gold in the Yukon, many Canadians propose to annex parts of Alaska currently controlled by the United States, by calling for a revision in the original map of the boundary line between the Russian Empire and the United States. [citation needed] The US offered to lease the territory but not to give it back. London and ...
Apology to Australia's Indigenous people from the Prime Minister Apologies to Indigenous peoples refer to apologies extended by political leaders or representatives, acting on behalf of a political entity or nation, to acknowledge and express remorse for some historical wrong.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) received criticism upon its opening in 2014 because it did not use the term genocide to describe the history of colonialism in Canada. [74] Two years after its opening, Rita K. Dhamoon critiqued the museum's focus on the Holocaust, frame of residential schools as assimilationist and not genocidal, and ...
Nearly half a dozen such schools operated in California, taking Native American children from their families and purging them of everything that made them Indian. The program officially ended in 1969.
The U.S. is issuing an apology after a member of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet was asked to remove his turban by TSA agents.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a formal apology Friday to Indigenous people for the mistreatment and trauma inflicted by the Catholic Church.
The report also resulted in an apology by then Prime Minister Stephen Harper on behalf of the Canadian government and its citizens for the residential school system was issued. [167] In 2015, Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin said that Canada's historical treatment of Indigenous peoples was "cultural genocide". [168]
The goal of an apology is generally forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration of the relationship between the people involved in a dispute. [2] The nature of an apology involves at least two people where one has offended the other. [3] Alternatively, it can involve two groups of people, one having previously offended the other. This is seen ...