The Horror Of Indian Residential Schools

If you've been noticing reports about graveyards at Indian residential schools in Canada, I suggest you read these words from Kevin Annett:

For in truth, there is not now, nor has there ever been, an “Indian problem” in Canada. Rather, the problem is a “white” one. The problem is with us.

I won’t point to collapsing eco-systems or troops in Afghanistan to prove this point. Nor need I pose the paradox of how educated men and women, with families of their own and a professed “Christian morality”, could drive needles through infants’ tongues at Indian residential schools, throw three year olds down stairs, sterilize healthy kids, and deliberately allow children to cough their lives away from tuberculosis, and then bury them in secret graves.

The evidence of the problem is more immediate, and far closer to home, in our continued segregation of aboriginal people into a lower standard of humanity that allows them to die at a rate fifteen times greater than other people of this country.

After all, if we Canadians are who we imagine ourselves to be – an enlightened society that “assimilated” native people into our ranks, and made them our equals – then why has not a single person ever been brought to trial for the death of a residential school child? Why is the disappearance of tens of thousands of native children in these schools not the subject of a major criminal investigation? And why is there an Indian Act, and not an Irish or an Italian Act?

Being, in reality, an unofficially apartheid society that operates, in practice, with two standards of justice – one for native people, and one for the rest of us – Canada can no more cure the legacy of the residential schools than it can stop chewing up the earth for short-term comfort and profit. At least, not this side of a fundamental moral and social revolution.

You can find the rest @

https://www.globalresearch.ca/first-nations-why-an-apology-is-wrong-and-deceptive-bringing-humanity-to-bear-on-the-residential-school-atrocity/9066

Unknown to many, we have a similar situation here in the US. Yes, our ancestors neglected, tortured, and killed Indian children, too. And just like our northern neighbors, we have been sweeping the problem under the rug for centuries.

By the way, a while back I read one of Kevin's books. It was a real eye-opener. Search him on the Internet; you'll find both good and bad. In my view he is more credible than any official in any of the Five Eyes countries, all of whom have abysmal records WRT their indigenous populations.