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Hey friend, if you are ever going to be in Saskatchewan, my email address is in my profile. Let me know when you'll be here - I'd love to take you around, intro

by hluska 5y ago

Hey friend, if you are ever going to be in Saskatchewan, my email address is in my profile. Let me know when you'll be here - I'd love to take you around, introduce you to some people including some survivors, show you some graves right in my city and maybe get you out into the country for a Pow Wow or something similar. You seem like a great person, you'd fit right in and I think you would be as drawn to these amazing people as I am. Last summer, I got to attend a really beautiful rally in front of our Legislature. The feeling there, of unity, love and craving justice was beyond almost anything I have ever experienced. Indigenous cultures are absolutely beautiful and incredibly strong, so strong that our country's system of evil couldn't wipe it out. There's something beautiful and inspiring in that. I agree with absolutely everything you say and reading this has been an absolute privilege. Like you, I'm saddened and ashamed and I've had my own thoughts of leaving Canada. My privilege is 100% because of white supremacy. I am literally on Hacker News now because of white supremacy. That is so embarrassing and shameful that I don't know what to do other than fight or flee. If you're interested in quite the read, read about the time the TRC requested $1.5 million from the Canadian government to search for graves. $1.5 million isn't even a rounding error in the Canadian budget - it's so insignificant it doesn't even exist. But they were denied that money. The TRC was an explicit agreement to find our missing Kookums and Mooshums (the words translate best as Grandmas/Grandpas but in a really strong Indigenous context). Talking to people like you fills me with a tremendous amount of hope. Goodness can overcome. Take good care and thank you. I just watched the press conference where they announced 751 bodies and I've never needed this level of positivity more. I owe you. Thank you. Honestly thank you.

monkeynotes 5y ago
There are likely thousands of buried children yet to be found. This is not news, people have known about this for decades but it took a privately funded search to break the ground. Government has essentially brushed this under the rug until private citizens took it upon themselves and paid GPR specialists to search for the graves that everyone knew were to be found somewhere. There is no statute of limitations on murder so why is there no criminal investigation? Someone is responsible for all these deaths.
- hluska 5y ago
  When this is all said and done, I hope that the number is less than 25,000 but I think it will be much higher. We're at 1,000 kids in the last couple of weeks and that's two residential schools. There is another graveyard a 10 minute drive from where I live and that Regina Indian Industrial Residential School was a complete shit hole, even by the low standards set by the other schools. Add in schools in Lebret (they used to torture kids by making them crawl up a 78m hill to say the Stations of the Cross) and Prince Albert and I bet we'll be at over 4,500. This number is going to be huge... As for criminal charges, go grab a beverage of your choice then come back and sit down. Did you know that we located 5,300 abusers during the TRC? And in all these years, Canada has laid charges against less than 50 people. The 5,300 people who we found were invited to testify at a compensation hearing- most refused and their records are being kept private from the police. People say that apologizing is the Canadian trait. I think it's passing the buck. When you ask police why there haven't been charges, they blame the victims for not coming forward. But bud, put yourself in their shoes. A cop rounded you up, took you away from your parents and sent you to a residential school. How much do you trust police??? It's fucking asinine to expect that... The TRC even operated under weird rules. If individual A accused individual B of abusing them, individual B would get to read the allegations and get individual A's name. Individual A can't get any information about their abuser. So, I guess the answer to your question is 'we are a really shitty country'.

by hluska 5y ago

monkeynotes 5y ago

There are likely thousands of buried children yet to be found. This is not news, people have known about this for decades but it took a privately funded search to break the ground. Government has essentially brushed this under the rug until private citizens took it upon themselves and paid GPR specialists to search for the graves that everyone knew were to be found somewhere. There is no statute of limitations on murder so why is there no criminal investigation? Someone is responsible for all these deaths.

hluska 5y ago
When this is all said and done, I hope that the number is less than 25,000 but I think it will be much higher. We're at 1,000 kids in the last couple of weeks and that's two residential schools. There is another graveyard a 10 minute drive from where I live and that Regina Indian Industrial Residential School was a complete shit hole, even by the low standards set by the other schools. Add in schools in Lebret (they used to torture kids by making them crawl up a 78m hill to say the Stations of the Cross) and Prince Albert and I bet we'll be at over 4,500. This number is going to be huge... As for criminal charges, go grab a beverage of your choice then come back and sit down. Did you know that we located 5,300 abusers during the TRC? And in all these years, Canada has laid charges against less than 50 people. The 5,300 people who we found were invited to testify at a compensation hearing- most refused and their records are being kept private from the police. People say that apologizing is the Canadian trait. I think it's passing the buck. When you ask police why there haven't been charges, they blame the victims for not coming forward. But bud, put yourself in their shoes. A cop rounded you up, took you away from your parents and sent you to a residential school. How much do you trust police??? It's fucking asinine to expect that... The TRC even operated under weird rules. If individual A accused individual B of abusing them, individual B would get to read the allegations and get individual A's name. Individual A can't get any information about their abuser. So, I guess the answer to your question is 'we are a really shitty country'.