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Chanie Wenjack

Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack was an Ojibwe First Nations boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, where he boarded for three years in Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He died of hunger and exposure at Farlane, Ontario, while trying to... Wikipedia
Died: October 23, 1966 (age 12 years), Farlane, Ontario
Other names: Charlie