<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples . The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches . </P> <P> The school system was created for the purpose of removing children from the influence of their own culture and assimilating them into the dominant Canadian culture . Over the course of the system's more than hundred year existence, about 30%, or roughly 150,000, of Indigenous children were placed in residential schools nationally . At least 6,000 of these students are estimated to have died while residents . </P>

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