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Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by michael1999 »

vmception wrote: post #162
michael1999 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A mix of disease, medical neglect, fire, malnourishment, physical abuse, suicide, murder, and exposure while attempting escape. Ethnic cleansing is a horrifying business. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-gr...

Are there any movies like horror or suspense films to burn this First Nation’s boarding school concept into our collective conscious?

There's definitely some exciting new fiction out there, but you don't need fiction to render the memory of these prison schools searing.

  https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential-school-opp-documents  
  https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/08/25/cover-up-of-residential-school-crimes-a-national-shame.html  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFfMnmR-b0  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tcCpKtoU0  
  http://sisis.nativeweb.org/resschool/sep1997.html

Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by michael1999 »

michael1999 wrote: post #191
vmception wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any movies like horror or suspense films to burn this First Nation’s boarding school concept into our collective conscious?

There's definitely some exciting new fiction out there, but you don't need fiction to render the memory of these prison schools searing. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential-school-opp-documents https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/08/25/cover-up-of-residential-school-crimes-a-national-shame.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFfMnmR-b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tcCpKtoU0…

And the Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report is public. It's right there to read.

Volume 4 is "Missing Children and Unmarked Burials". http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html

Pressure is building right now to fund these projects and make a proper accounting of the unmarked and uncounted dead. This is just one of dozens of crime scenes. Consider telling your MP you support this effort.

Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by michael1999 »

vmception wrote: post #162
michael1999 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A mix of disease, medical neglect, fire, malnourishment, physical abuse, suicide, murder, and exposure while attempting escape. Ethnic cleansing is a horrifying business. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-gr...

Are there any movies like horror or suspense films to burn this First Nation’s boarding school concept into our collective conscious?

But if you want genre fiction, Blood Quantum is fun and timely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quantum_(film)

Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by [deleted] »

at_a_remove wrote: post #21

This is one incident among many, but it has less to do with indigenous children as it does with any system wherein the accounting of "disconnected" children is left to that system. Tuam, County Galway ... eight hundred infants with missing graves. St Mary's Cemetery in Lanark, four hundred left in a single mass grave. In Germany, nuns pimping out orphans. The Sisters of Mercy scandal. I could go on. Bluntly put, when…

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Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by bluishgreen »

kstenerud wrote: post #6

This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places! This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched th…

Not just in Canada. In the US as well.

https://smile.amazon.com/Kill-Indian-Save-Man-Residential/dp...

Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by brailsafe »

SZJX wrote: post #181
brailsafe wrote: post #136

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The attempted unification of tribes by removing their identity is different than unification. Unification is only so if whatever happens is a joint proposal of some sort

This distinction sounds quite contrived to me. Surely you could see that, in most cases throughout the history, when a united identity emerges out of several different tribes/groups whatsoever, there would be a leading group that exerted greater influence either by force or by (economic etc.) strength. Seldom is the case that all tribes decided that they were absolutely equal and would form a joint entity with the sa…

I don't think you'd need absolute equality, influence, or perfect agreement, you'd just need it to facilitate somewhat voluntary cultural diffusion to decrease the level of conflict. In the context of the thread, it's historically accurate that this was already present in some ways during the centuries preceding Canada and the US' founding, but fell apart quite dramatically.

Re: Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

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Post by simon1ltd »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #155
simon1ltd wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve heard that insurance for Catholic Churches aren’t any higher than insurance for a different denomination —- the abuse is at the same level as other churches, it’s just that the Catholic Church is so much larger than any of the others. I can say that the mandatory training programs and background checks that are required to work with children (now) far exceed anything I’ve seen from other churches.

This is almost certainly false. Please provide evidence for these claims.

I can't find the article, which I read years ago. Some quick googling did turn this up:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/2...

Which discusses the fact that the abuse isn't any more prevalent than with school teachers or other denominations.

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