June 4 In 2021, Newfoundland and Labrador moved ahead with plans to drop references to Indigenous people as “savages” from its 400-year-old coat of arms. Premier Andrew Furey said a formal notice was submitted to the legislature. It had been almost three years since the province’s governing Liberals said they would drop the archaic description and redesign the coat of arms. In 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the Catholic Church to take responsibility for its role in Canada’s residential school system. Trudeau said as a Catholic, he was deeply disappointed by the position that the church had taken. The government-sponsored, church-run schools for Indigenous children operated in Canada for more than 120 years. June 5 In 2024, a British museum declared it would be returning a ceremonial headdress…
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