More Than 200 Bodies Found at Indigenous School in Canada
[usnews.com]
Apparently, Canada had policies concerning their Native American population similar to the US.
"From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died."
"The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.
"Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a news release that the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of ground-penetrating radar."
"Indigenous leaders have cited that legacy of abuse and isolation as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on reservations."
The effects of forced assimulation and Christianization of Native people continues to this day.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Same criminal organization, different country:
"A mass grave containing the remains of babies and children has been discovered at a former Catholic care home in Ireland where it has been alleged up to 800 died, government-appointed investigators said on Friday.
Excavations at the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, have uncovered an underground structure divided into 20 chambers containing “significant quantities of human remains”, the judge-led mother and baby homes commission said.
The commission said analysis of selected remains revealed ages of the deceased ranged from 35 weeks to three years old. It found that the dead had been mostly buried in the 1950s, when the facility was one of more than a dozen in Ireland offering shelter to orphans, unmarried mothers and their children. The Tuam home closed in 1961.
The home, run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic religious order of nuns, received unmarried pregnant women to give birth. The women were separated from their children, who remained elsewhere in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted.
RonWilliam53
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May 30, 2021
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The same story is true here in the US as well. Carlisle Indian school and others were terrible places from the late 1800's to the closing of many mid-1900's. Forced assimilation and destruction of Native cultures persisted in the most cruel ways.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the illegitimate step child of the US Military. It was formed from the military as a paternalistic attempt to assimilate or destroy Native tribes.
The philosophy surrounding its formation was based on the idea that Natives were too naive and too ignorant to govern themselves.That they needed a "Father" figure to govern them and lead them on the "righteous" path. The structure today, upon inspection resembles its military base in many ways. It no longer has the same mission fortunately. If it had I would not have continued working for them [BIE] for 32 years.
t1nick
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May 30, 2021
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That philosophy seems to be similar to an argument slave owners used to defend American slavery. Blacks were thought to be too ignorant and needed a white man to govern them. Sounds similar to the way they thought of woman too back in the day - isn't that why they weren't allowed to vote during the 18th and 19th centuries? Some even argued whether or not black people had souls. Some claimed blacks shouldn't be baptised because it.
I once read that animals were also thought not to have souls, that they were just mechanical machines. When some scientists experimented on animals, they instructed those observing to ignore the screams from the animals while they were disected with no anesthetic because they said the animal had no true feelings, just reactions. Come to think of it, it is beginning to sounds as how some American politicians are starting to think about citizens and voters - the middle class and the poor.
Slavery and the present day white privilege that prevails in the US (especially in our Southern states) is a holdover from European Colonialism. The European Age of Exploration was built on racism. Almost every European nation ( with exception of French colonislization in the New World at least) looked down upon the peoples they colonized as less than equal.
They exploited them while worked full time to assimilate and destroy their culture and make them good "colored whitemen". I.e. all the responsibilities of good Christian whites with none of the privileges or rights.
So our racism is a direct result of the colonial culture exported from Europe. We may no longer consider ourselves colonizers or exploiters, but the societal attitudes havent changed all that much.
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