= 寄宿学校。
「寄宿学校」というとボーディング・スクール(boarding school)が思い浮かぶけど、"residential school"という同義語もある。
カナダの先住民寄宿学校跡から215体の児童の遺体が発見された事件、
今まで「ボーディング・スクール＝英才教育」、という認識だったけれど、北米の先住民に関しては全く違うことを知る。
In Canada, the Indian residential school system[nb 1] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples.[nb 2] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches. The school system was created to remove Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and assimilate them into the dominant European-Canadian culture, "to kill the Indian in the child."[3][4][5]:42
これは酷すぎる。ニュースを知った時はカナダの黒歴史かと思ったけれど、ウィキペディアの項、
Native American boarding schools, also known as Indian Residential Schools, were established in the United States during the early 19th and mid 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture, while destroying and vilifying Native American culture.[1]
アメリカにも同様の黒歴史が。しかしこれだけ組織的に民族文化の抹殺をしておきながら、その史実が（自分が無知なだけかもだけど）それほど表に登ってこないのはなんなんだろう。
