Such an awful story developing here,
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...-not-isolated-incident-leaders-warn-1.6046394
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...-not-isolated-incident-leaders-warn-1.6046394
I was horrified. Do they know who killed them or how they died?
And successive federal governments over the span of more than 100 years. The Kamloops facility was still in operation until the mid-1970’s.Punishment, malnutrition or possibly disease.
Catholic Church is a huge culprit here. They need to be more accountable.
As a child who grew up in the Canadian educational system, we were barely taught about this history. It’s appalling to hear about these children who were discovered. You have to imagine there are so, so many more that we don’t know about yet.
As a child who grew up in the Canadian educational system, we were barely taught about this history. It’s appalling to hear about these children who were discovered. You have to imagine there are so, so many more that we don’t know about yet.
Could you say what the TRC is? I’m sure google would turn it up, but just for those following who don’t know.My employer arranged for us to do a 12 week online from U of Alberta on Indigenous history and culture. We also had weekly chats with Indigenous leaders. It was eye opening. For the end of the course we spent the day at a healing lodge listening to elders. and did a trip to the TRC archives.
I've had the opportunity to hear Niigaan Sinclair speak several times (son of judge Murray Sinclair who was chair of TRC) on various topics. Amazing speaker! (writes for the Free Press too..) .
More people should take the time to visit the TRC and learn the truth.
We still have a lot of healing to do.
Could you say what the TRC is? I’m sure google would turn it up, but just for those following who don’t know.
Truth and Reconciliation coalition, right? I knew about that, just didn’t know it was a physical site or what the acronym stood for. It’s such a shameful part of our historyhttp://www.trc.ca/reconciliation.htmlSure. It was the national inquiry. The archives are housed local to me.
Truth and Reconciliation coalition, right? I knew about that, just didn’t know it was a physical site or what the acronym stood for. It’s such a shameful part of our history
News/talk radio here in Calgary this morning interviewed a prominent First Nations spokesperson who says there are an estimated 800 children unaccounted for from the Residential Schools here in Alberta alone. Multiply that across all provinces and this number is staggering. Apparently over time there were 6,000 "official" deaths of children - not taking into account the type of situation we're discussing here. There were 80 of these facilities altogether across 8 provinces and approximately 150,000 children were in the system over more than 100 years. The last Residential School, located in Saskatchewan, was still in operation up to 1996.As a child who grew up in the Canadian educational system, we were barely taught about this history. It’s appalling to hear about these children who were discovered. You have to imagine there are so, so many more that we don’t know about yet.
In order to clarify misconceptions; there is plenty of blame to go around amongst many denominations at that time, all of whom were eager to be coopted into the overarching political goal of forced assimilation and "claim" the souls for their team (see note under 1884):...I really hope answers can be given to the people and the light shed even more. There is def. a Catholic church element in there regarding admittance of past crimes.