When news broke last month that the remains of at least 215 children had been found at the largest residential school in Canada’s westernmost province, many began wondering whether the discovery was just the tip of the iceberg. South of the Canadian border, hundreds and perhaps thousands of children are believed to have died in church- and government-run residential schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. The conventional thinking among white settlers was that native people needed to be reformed, modernized and educated, and that a Christian education would put all that in place; in practice, whole cultures were wiped out. Decades on, it remains a horrifying and still-unreconciled issue for indigenous communities across the U.S. and Canada. But the forced “re-education” of indigenous communities is by no means solely a North American experience: Almost everywhere colonialists have set foot, efforts to indoctrinate local populations to the European way of living – and thinking – have been front and center. Today, we look at how these past wrongs are increasingly coming to light, the voices demanding accountability and importantly, how some countries are working to promote indigienous education and culture.