Holy cow.
"Citizen! We must drill a hole in your head to release the negative thoughts in your mind. A 9mm hole should do it."
Oops. An honest mistake. Go back to what you were doing.
One of the complaints was “they cut our hair”.
As anyone who has dealt with head lice in those days or since, cutting hair was the only real solution to the problem.
Antone remember the doughboys in WWI or basic training since then?
It is not like a drill instructor nor head marm is going to lovingly brush everyone’s hair 200 strokes every night.
Make no mistake, the politically active natives knew there were no mass graves. Sure, there may have been a few because transportation dead bodies across the province, in this time, was about as practical as sending it to Mars today.
Canada had the best of intentions and worked with the little they had financially, but it was also done by request by the native community.
Holy cow.
"Citizen! We must drill a hole in your head to release the negative thoughts in your mind. A 9mm hole should do it."
More efforts to define the past as what GOVERNMENT defines it as.
He who controls the past controls the present.
Lack of evidence put lie to government’s TRUTH and if you say it does you are going to jail Bub!
Orwell saw this coming he just underestimated how long it would take to kill Western Civilization.
The multi-billion-dollar Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and probably 90% of it went to Liquor
The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA; French: Convention de règlement relative aux pensionnats indiens, CRRPI) is an agreement between the government of Canada and approximately 86,000 Indigenous peoples in Canada who at some point were enrolled as children in the Canadian Indian residential school system, a system which was in place between 1879 and 1997. The IRSSA recognized the damage inflicted by the residential schools and established a C$1.9-billion compensation package called CEP (Common Experience Payment) for all former IRS students. The agreement, announced in 2006, was the largest class action settlement in Canadian history.
Funded by the Canadian government's Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and administered by Christian churches, predominantly the Roman Catholic Church in Canada (60%), but also the Anglican Church of Canada (30%), and the United Church of Canada, including its pre-1925 constituent church predecessors (10%). The policy was to remove children from the influence of their families and culture and assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the system's existence, approximately 30% of native children, roughly some 150,000, were placed in residential schools nationally.
…a "long-term, broad-based policy approach in response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples which included the "Statement of Reconciliation: Learning from the Past," in which the Government of Canada recognizes and apologizes to those who experienced physical and sexual abuse at Indian residential schools and acknowledges its role in the development and administration of residential schools.
In 2001, the federal Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada was created to manage and resolve the large number of abuse claims filed by former students against the federal government. In 2004, an Assembly of First Nations Report on Canada’s Dispute Resolution Plan to Compensate for Abuses in Indian Residential Schools led to discussions to develop a holistic, fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.
On 11 June 2008, Prime Minister Harper "apologized on behalf of the Government of Canada, and all Canadians, for the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their homes and communities to attend Indian residential schools. In this historic Apology, the Prime Minister recognized that there is no room in Canada for the attitudes that created the residential school system to prevail."
The IRSSA allotted C$960 million to the Independent Assessment Process (IAP), "a settlement fund for claims of sexual abuses, serious physical abuse and other wrongful acts" at IRS which "provides money to those who experienced serious physical and/or sexual abuse at an Indian Residential School
Violent abuse was "rampant, not isolated."
The fate of the records documenting over 38,000 IAP claims was placed in front of Canadian courts. The Supreme Court of Canada decided that on September 19, 2027 all records generated through IAP will be destroyed unless the Survivor mentioned in the record indicates that they wish the record is preserved. The Supreme Court decision indicated that IAP records can only be requested for preservation by Survivors. Family members are unable to ask for records to be saved, meaning that IAP records of people who have died since the time of their IAP claim and before this process was established, will not be saved.