"Dwelling" on something is reliving it, I guess, and that, for sure, we must stop doing. But we cannot forget, either, without engaging ourselves in the Truth and Reconciliation process. Otherwise, in 150 years, we will be in a place not terribly different from the U.S. right now as they live in the unreconciled legacy of slavery.

I think it's worth remembering that the Senator's remarks were more about the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) than the schools themselves. (Her remarks, misguided in my opinion, were that the TRC did not bring out the good things those schools did.) So far, the TRC has given our country 94 Calls to Action. The ways we engage those Calls to Action will be shaping our country and reconciling its peoples over the next generation, at least, and everyone will be far better for it.