Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, far right, and National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine pause before walking into the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on June 11, 2008, in Ottawa, Canada. Harper delivered a formal statement of apology on behalf of the federal government and all Canadians to former students of Indian Residential Schools, who for decades were forcibly removed from their communities and sent to state-funded schools to be assimilated.

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