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> What did the Canadian government do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_of_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reco

• gorwell 3y ago
  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the opposite as advertised. It's a serious mistake to take the self proclaimed Ministry of Truth at face value.
  • shagie 3y ago
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/world/canada/canada-school-system-pope.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/world/canada/canada-schoo... And, in the end, the conclusion of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission was unambiguous: “Children were abused, physically and sexually, and they died in the schools in numbers that would not have been tolerated in any school system anywhere in the country, or in the world.” From the 1880s through the 1990s, the Canadian government forcibly removed at least 150,000 Indigenous children from their homes and sent them t o residential schools to assimilate them. Their languages and religious and cultural practices were banned, sometimes using violence. It was, the commission reported in 2015, a system of “cultural genocide.” --- Should that not be taken at face value?
    • rohitb91 3y ago
      There’s things that are left out that are important Many indigenous wanted their kids to go to these schools There was abuse in the school system everywhere and it seems like catholic schooling has been sexually abusive everywhere Rural canada was extremely poor Viruses like influenza ravaged everyone The media reporting on the matter makes it seem like everything bad of the past was exclusively done to indigenous when it was a combination of life sucking for everyone and then it being a bit worse to the indigenous on top of that. But painting it as this extreme injustice to indigenous is misleading IMO. To say nothing of the extreme grifting and people looking for payouts from the government that only make the lives of the indigenous worse.
      • ulrashida 3y ago
        It sounds like you should read the report. "Life sucking for everyone" is not equal to the government of the day targeting a racial group for the multiple negative policies that were enacted. What level of injustice do you ascribe to taking children away from families if not extreme?
      • PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
        > Many indigenous wanted their kids to go to these schools For a bit more background, see my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256850 But I wanted to address this idea that somehow it's alright because the parents were ok with it. My grandparents sent their children to this school partly because they couldn't afford to feed them and partly because my grandfather (a white man) wanted them there. My mother used to tell me stories of my grandmother going out into the woods and picking berries and hunting just to feed them. Don't mistake a family sending their children to these schools for responsibility for what happened there or condoning it.
    • PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
      I've not been following most of this thread of conversation, but this reply jumped out at me so let me throw my hat into the ring here. I live in the US, but my mother went to what is known as a boarding school for native americans. They were beaten and raped, my mother got married at 15 just to get away from it all. They would do things like lock the kids outside during the winter just for using their native language. So while I don't know the specifics of this case, I also don't find it at all surprising. And what makes it worse is that the man who ran that school got a humanitarian award years later. I remember it because it was announced a few weeks before one of our family reunions (I have a huge family, grandmother had 19 children) and the anger amongst all of the older family members was palpable. This man raped my mother. I recently attended the funeral of an aunt (roughly 3 years ago) and met a woman who told me she tried to do research on the specific school my family went to. They've torn the school down and apparently you can hardly find any documentation on the school itself. The woman told me when she started trying to dig deeper into it she started getting death threats. People who don't believe this kind of stuff happens don't live in reality (charmed life). I grew up hearing stories of them putting kids into communal showers, telling them to soap up, and then inspecting them. If they weren't white enough they'd get strapped while under the water. I could go on and on with the stories I grew up with (not just from my mother either).