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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Worth mentioning that some First Nations have Gofundme drives going to search for more graves on or around residential school properties. There are an estimated 4,100 children that didn’t come home from residential schools. For personal reconciliation, some people might feel compelled to donate. One of that Nations here already surpassed their $30,000 goal and are donating to the others.
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Where else to relatives of murder victims (assuming that every grave has at least one suspected homicide victim) have to fundraise?
I really feel that we (Canadians) are really going to have a cultural reckoning around this. Its likely our country has multiple mass graves of children, that is got to change our smug confidence in our cultures social legitimacy.
When I read Bob Johnson's 21 Things You Don't Know about the Indian Act...it shocked me that our government implemented a caste system. One that not only gave totalitarian control to Indian Affairs agents over the lives of people, but also subjugated Indigenous women to institutionalized disenfranchisement (loss of legal rights based off of marriage, unable to vote until the 1960's IIRC). And the years following the implementation of Treaty 7 also showed breathtakingly bad performance by the Government in preventing starvation.
Is there any reason why the residential school system can't be defined as a concentration camp (not equivalent to the Nazi's...but a concentration camp nonetheless)?
Generally speaking, a concentration camp is a place where people are concentrated and imprisoned without trial. Inmates are usually exploited for their labour and kept under harsh conditions