In 1996, the Gordon Reserve Indian Residential School near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, the last of the government-run institutions, finally closed its doors and the main building was demolished.
Calls for such a day long pre-date its establishment. According to rabble.ca, Jules Sioui, an activist who established the North America Indian Government movement, affirmed June 21 as Indian Day in 1945. Although perhaps not directly attributable to either the royal commission or National Aboriginal Peoples Day, the closure of the Gordon school was a product of the times.
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