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Originally Posted by Komskies
Assimilate or gtfo.
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Originally Posted by St. Pats
No kidding. If you have a time machine then go back and complain. I didn't massacre you or anyone else and NO you can't have my money. There is the ability for everyone to get an education and make something out of their lives. Quit asking for those of us around who aren't in some minority to give you our hard earned cash.
I'm so sick of these people. Just screw off.
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The racism and ignorance by some on this forum and by a great many Canadians is upsetting and disappointing.
For all of those people who believe that we as Canadians should have no part in treating First Nations (FN), Metis, etc. with dignity and respect and that we should take no responsibility for working towards a mutually beneficial solution to the numerous issues facing FN, Metis, etc., I suggest you educate yourselves and exercise some empathy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia..._school_system
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The Indian residential schools of Canada were a network ... funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs, and adminstered by Christian churches, most notably the Catholic Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada. The system had origins in pre-Confederation times, but was primarily active following the passage of the Indian Act in 1876, until the mid-twentieth century. The last residential school was not closed until 1996.
There has long been signifigant historigraphical and popular controversy about the conditions experienced by students in the residential schools. However, a new consensus emerged in the early twentieth-first century that the schools did signifigant harm to Aboriginal children by removing them from their families, depriving them of their ancestral languages, and exposing many of them to physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers and other students.
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The oppression and abuse of the FN, Metis, etc. by the government, we as Canadians, and Canadian institutions didn't end hundreds of years ago like so many ignorant folks seem to believe; it was happening during the lifetime of the majority.