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Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.

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Ward Churchill
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 2
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