Portraits of a Canadian Calamity

A stunning collection of images by New York-based photographer Daniella Zalcman.

With financial support from the Pulitzer Center, New York-based freelance photographer Daniella Zalcman traveled to Canada in 2014 to meet with and document survivors of one of that country’s darkest chapters. From the “Signs of Identity in Canada’s First Nation” project notes:

For 120 years, the Canadian government operated a network of Indian Residential Schools that were meant to assimilate young indigenous students into western Canadian culture. Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and send them to church-run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions, routinely sexually and physically assaulted, and in some extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.

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