In its latest historic site designation of an Indian Residential School, Parks Canada has deleted all reference to “genocide,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

The move was made without comment and the agency as recently as last Feb. 12 called the schools “cultural genocide.”

In a notice of a plaque unveiling Thursday at Manitoba’s Portage la Prairie Residential School, managers acknowledged past assimilation policies without describing them as genocidal.

“Built in 1915, the former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School functioned within the Residential School system whereby the government and certain churches and religious organizations worked together to assimilate Indigenous children as part of a broad set of efforts to destroy Indigenous culture and identity and suppress Ind

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