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Originally Posted by Sliver
Is it a mystery, though? My understanding is the church ripped indigenous children away from their parents in order to indoctrinate them into Christianity. Once in the schools, many of them were humiliated, taught a bunch of utter nonsense (kinda like what Christians continue to teach people today), and abuse and murder followed. That's what happened.
There should be reparations for those crimes as the trauma continues to reverberate through indigenous communities to this day.
But...we can't apologize forever without being forgiven (especially since it literally was nobody under a certain age...say 60?...who had anything to do with any of it). Nevertheless, I am willing to take responsibility for the past, but I don't think my children should have to and I don't think them apologizing for existing in Canada before each assembly is helping anything.
I'm at the stage where I want to know specifically what indigenous people want for us to bury the hatchet and move forward together. Onesie twosieing weird things like nonstop land acknowledgements, no fireworks, and every other measure is not going to get us there. If our apologies and our willingness to pay reasonable reparations are not acceptable, then let's just stop doing them. It's a waste of our energy and resources if there is no end and at some point we need to take a firm stand and draw the line that people born after a certain date are not obligated to apologize any longer.
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Not a lot of argument from me.
How you summarized "what happened" is what I understand as well. But, I think there's more questions to be answered on the specifics. Maybe the specifics aren't that important, but families like to know the who, what, when, and why when a family member dies. There's 100's of children found with none of that.
As to what the Indigenous specifically want. They published the 94 calls to action;
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/br...n_english2.pdf
The number of actions acted on is something like 13 out of 94. I might be misremembering, but it's a terribly low number.
Cancelling Canada Day fireworks wasn't one of the 94 though. I guess that's a bonus.