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Native leaders welcome school abuse settlement
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Native leaders in Canada are welcoming a billion-dollar settlement for sexual, physical and mental abuse suffered at government-sponsored residential schools.
Phil Fontaine, the chief of the Assembly of First Nations, is a survivor of residential school abuse. So is Ted Quewezance, a former chief of the Keeseekoose First Nation and the president of the National Residential School Survivors Society.
Both leaders said a settlement was long overdue.
Elders over the age of 65 and living in poverty will be able to apply for $8,000 in compensation before the deal is finalized. A total of 80,000 former students should be eligible for about $2 billion in payments.
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