By Caitrin Pilkington  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Warning: The following report contains mention of violence committed against Indigenous children and communities. If you require support, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Line can be reached 24 hours a day by calling 1-866-925-4419. Weeks before the final deadline, many who attended Northwest Territories day schools as children are just discovering that they won’t be eligible for compensation from the recent settlement. The issue comes down to the legal definition of residential schools by Canadian courts. In the first residential school class action lawsuit in 2006, at the time, the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, the prerequisite for eligibility was to have stayed in a boarding house while at school. But in the last ten years, two major class action

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