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Observers raised concerns early and often as the federal boarding home program for Indigenous public school students expanded in the 1960s and 1970s.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller won't say if a proposed class-action settlement with survivors of Canada's boarding home program for Indigenous students will include an apology — something the case's lead plaintiff spent more than a decade advocating for.

The Canadian government has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the federal management of a boarding home program for Indigenous students attending public schools that operated between 1951 and 1992.

Over the past four years, the government and counsel for the plaintiffs tried to resolve this litigation for thousands of Indigenous people who suffered cultural loss and abuse while residing in a boarding home placement for the purpose of attending school from September 1, 1951, to June 30, 1992, reports Xinhua news agency.