New Brunswick - Book with racist passage at Rexton school prompts apology from education minister

New Brunswick's education minister apologized to a Elsipogtog First Nation mother after her child brought home a book from an elementary school that included an illustration with a caption in French that says: 'I am an Indian and I will scalp you!'

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