The Pope went to Canada to apologize. For some indigenous school survivors, he triggered more pain
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Pope Francis himself arrived in Canada this week with a singular purpose — to apologize on Canadian soil directly and personally to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church's role in the government funded residential school system.
Her grandmother sewed it for her when she was four years old, she says, before she was sent to Fort Alexander residential school in the 1960s. But a nun took the coat from her, she remembers.
"That nun took it off of me and threw it at my mom," she told CNN. Then the nun called her mother a 'savage" -- an incident she said foreshadowed years of abuse.
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