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Originally Posted by GirlySports
What was the thinking at the time? I'm trying to wrap my head around it. We've conquered this land but let's not completely annihilate them. Let them have their own territory and their own land but take their kids away and put them into essentially re-education camps and they will be 'Canadian' for future generations to come? And if they misbehave we'll just punish them to death then secretly bury them? Was it just one thing led to another, one bad idea led to another, one cover up led to another?
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Well, they kind of knew that they would not be able to change the thinking and ways of the adult Indigenous people...so where did they start? with the children...not much different than ISIS taking young boys as young as 3 to train them.
The various tribes were given land but certainly not all the land they were traditionally living on. In many many cases, they were given land that was basically useless. They were not able to exist as before and that is the main reason so many were starving in a short period of time. Starve them out and they will come running to us to save them.
Ulterior motives were present in more ways than one.