I knew the Europeans slaughtered the Native Americans in an AmeriKan genocide, but I had no idea the Canadians did the same.
"Canada to apologize for abuse to Indians; Sought to forcibly 'Christianize and civilize' population" by Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times | June 11, 2008
OTTAWA - For eight years, Thomas Louttit was forced to attend a residential school whose mission was to "Christianize and civilize" Canada's native people....
Tomorrow, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will formally apologize to Canada's aboriginal people and declare his support for a truth and reconciliation commission....
"The important thing is that they own up to what they did, admit that it is unconscionable, and it was genocide," said Roland Chrisjohn, the director of the native studies program at St. Thomas University in Saskatchewan, and a member of the Iroquois nation. "But they are afraid that such an admission would bring with it criminal liability."
Why is it ALWAYS about the $$$$?!
Why can't states ADMIT THEIR CRIMES like citizens are expected to ADMIT THEIRS, huh?
Sig Heil!
Over a century, Canada's government and churches built 130 residential schools. Children were forcibly taken from their parents to instill mainstream language, culture, and values. An Indian Affairs official in 1920 said the goal was "to kill the Indian in the child."
HOLY SHIT!!!! Good, peace-loving Canada who never hurt anyone?
For the last time: ALL GOVERNMENTS SUCK!!!!!
"Our object is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed . . . and there is no Indian question," wrote Duncan Campbell Scott, deputy superintendent general of the Indian Affairs department.
We KILLED THEM here in AmeriKa!!!!!!
7-10 MILLION of them -- at least, that's what the school told me.
Native rituals like pow-wows were outlawed, and entire communities relocated....
Gee, if I didn't know better, I'd say the Canadian government behaved like a bunch of NAZIS!!!!!
For Justice Harry LaForme, the chairman of the newly-formed Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the truth is now largely known; the real work will be in the reconciliation.
"Today, the idea that you could order the removal of a people from the fabric of a nation is a human-rights violation of the first order," he said during an interview in the commission's new office across from Canada's Parliament.
Somehow, ISRAEL DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE about that -- nor does the world!!!
"In order to move forward, we need to listen to people's voices, to hear the 'whys' behind it, to write the missing chapter that everyone knows is there."
Yeah, unless they are FROM GAZA!!! Then NO ONE HEARS THEM!!!!!!
.... One of the largest shifts in attitude has come from Canada's churches, which ran many of the schools and have since settled lawsuits for physical and sexual abuse.
Oh, no, please, not MORE CHURCH SEX ABUSE!!! WTF?!
"The 'good guys,' no matter how kindly or well intentioned, have to confront they were complicit in a system of evil," said Jamie Scott, the United Church of Canada officer for residential schools.
You HEAR THAT, USRAEL?!
The United Church was one of the first to withdraw from the schools in 1969, and in 1986, it was the first of the churches to apologize.
Between 1991 and 1994, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate from the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, and the Presbyterian Church also issued apologies. They have agreed to participate and donate to the commission.
Scott said staff members have their own tales to tell.
"Many of the people who worked in those schools never beat a kid," he said.
"They saw themselves called to help people they saw as marginalized. They have a side of the story, too."So did Nazi guards.
