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Originally Posted by dammage79
Wait wait wait. You're saying a bunch of church going devoted Christian/Catholic men formed their own indoctrination strategy and made the creators of indoctrination do their bidding? Okay.
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Well you can read the Ryerson report and draw your own conclusions. It’s one of the foundational documents on residential school policy.
In my opinion it reads and I am paraphrasing that the indigenous people are such savages only the Christianity can save them whereas uneducated rural whites do not need the Church to save them. So to me it’s the State asking the Church to “fix” indigenous people rather than the Church declaring these people needed to be saved and the government listening to the church.
This was a government policy to destroy indigenous culture carried out by an uncaring and corrupt church.
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the North American Indian cannot be civilized or preserved in a state of civilization (including habits of industry and sobriety) except in connect with, if not by the influence of, not only religious instruction and sentiment but of religious feelings. Even in ordinary civilized life, the mass of the labouring classes are controlled by their feelings and almost the only rule of action, in proportion to the absence or partial character of their intellectual development. The theory of a certain kind of education philosophy is falsified in respect to the Indian: with him nothing can be done to improve or elevate his character and condition without the aid of religious feeling. This influence must be superadded to all others to make the Indian a sober and industrious man. Even a knowledge of the doctrines and moral precepts of orthodox [c]hristianity, with all the appliances of prudential example and moral instruction, is inadequate to produce in the heart and life of the Indian, the spirit and habits of an industrial civilization, without the additional energy and impulsive activity of religious feeling.”
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https://indigenousresurgence.blog.ryerson.ca/
To blame the Church as the primary actor seems like away to try to sluff off guilt of from the Colonial practices that gave us the benefits we have today.