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RTJAN 20 2024
Murray Sinclair, Manitoba's first Indigenous judge and former senator who led Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), passed away aged 73 on Monday.
Sinclair was born on a reservation and raised by his grandparents, both of whom were forced into government-funded residential schools, which were created to assimilate Indigenous children into non-Indigenous society.
During his time leading the TRC, Sinclair estimated that over 4.1K — and possibly up to 15K — Indigenous children died due to neglect in the country's residential school system in what he alleged to be a "cultural genocide."
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