#Canadian residential schools

[golden-haired-native]

I know I don’t have a large following. I know this post will get lost in the sea of other posts. I know I don’t come on here often, and when I do I try to keep my page free from death and other serious topics. Yet, I think this is imperative to say, especially since I myself am of indigenous descent. I ask all of you to join me in solidarity.

Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, and most importantly activist was found dead. He was assaulted in a club in Lawrence, Kansas. He was killed and his braids; a symbol of his heritage, of his Lakota decent, and a sacred symbol across many an indigenous nation, were forcibly cut.

I beg of thee and I plead with thee, spread the word. Do your part, however big or little, to bring light to this situation. Whether it be by reblogging this post or others alike, or by going out and making a stand. Do it.

Shed light on the situation. This goes beyond the death of one man. It is about the abuse and the destruction of natives and their communities. Of the killing of many an innocent soul. Of the brutalization of many First Nations.

We have seen time and time again, many indigenous people die by similar means. We need to bring light on the deaths of any and all indigenous individuals dead, missing or at risk. It is an epidemic, an assault, and a silent cleansing of many a nation.

Whether it be the estimated 6,000 dead at the hands of Canadian residential schools, the murdered and missing indigenous women and children, or the killing of an actor and activist, you cannot deny the sheer abhorrence of this problem. The problem of many Native American people dying, going missing and being abused, at an alarming rate. At a level unprecedented and unparalleled, at a level of which should not be kept silent.

Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, activist.

Look at him and spread awareness for him and for many others befallen by the same fate.

Remember him. Remember all of the others. Let nobody else befall the same fate again.

[kitsuneheartreviews]

Nonfiction picture book: "The Secret Pocket" by Peggy Janicki

The true-life story of the author's mother's childhood, barely surviving in a Canadian residential school. Only a few pages near the end were about the "secret pocket," but that is in no way to this book's detriment. The true focus of the story is the unending atrocities committed by the Catholic residential school authorities. Starvation, cultural genocide, isolation, and severe corporal punishment, and also the ways the school hid what they did, even from family visitors.

This is just one of the many stories being raised up to finally bring recognition to the tragic history of residential schools. For a children's focus, it has to walk a fine line between between a full, overwhelming truth and making things too sanitized for kids. I think this book does a great job for a 4-8 age range, but it definitely should be read WITH a parent, instead of just given to a child. Discussions will be needed.

Advanced reader copy provided by the publisher.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Content Warning for discussions of residential schools and the systemic violence and abuse of Indigenous children.

It was a reunion decades in the making and a kickoff to the new year the Quill family will never forget. Sisters Nita and Brandy Quill met for the first time at a SkyTrain station in Vancouver last week, more than 30 years after they were separated during a period of colonial violence against Indigenous families known as the ’60s Scoop. The pair found each other on Facebook in the years after their mother’s death. “It’s surreal. Nothing like this has ever happened in our lives before,” Brandy said, embracing her long-lost sister at Burrard Station downtown. “This is to me a miracle. I’m just trying to take it in. It will probably take a long time to process it. It’s a dream come true.”

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[plentyoffandoms]

Just remember this when you celebrate Canada Day...if you are.

215 and counting.

I have no idea what the number is now.

[gardengnosticator]

the fact that the news media was so ready and willing to eat up the beheaded israeli babies lie to help normalise the mass murder of palestinians but that the recorded unearthing of countless mass graves of palestinian civilians, battered and beaten, covered in bullet wounds, bound and gagged and dumped in a pit in bombed out hospitals gets nothing should radicalise you

[bossymarmalade]

(I acknowledge that I live on the unceded territory of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Stz’uminus and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations)

“The Survivors’ Flag is an expression of remembrance, meant to honour residential school Survivors and all the lives and communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada. Each element depicted on the flag was carefully selected by Survivors from across Canada, who were consulted in the flag’s creation.“ - the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

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[holly-mckenzie]

Ma’am, what is your full name? Patri... Patricia Little Bird. Little Bird. Hey, Mrs Little Bird, we’re child case workers with the child protective services in Saskatchewan, do you understand? We’re here to determine if you are a fit mother.

LITTLE BIRD  (2023) ｜ Episode One directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

[birdmomblogs]

tw: canadian residential schools and genocide

if you live on “canadian” territory and participated in canada day celebrations today, i want you to seriously reconsider your point of view as a settler in Turtle Island (North America). remember last year when there was such a huge outcry for the #cancelcanadaday and #noprideingenocide movements following the recovery of 751 unmarked children's graves? (notice how i didn't say discovery because indigenous peoples have known that those graves were always there?)

yeah well anyways, where's that same energy this year when the truth and reconciliation report is estimating there are over 3200 unmarked graves out there? i KNEW that everything that happened last year would mostly end up being false allyship. most of the canada day events were cancelled because of covid not because people gave a damn about mourning indigenous trauma.

if you were an actual ally, this would have been front and centre of your minds today. if you were an actual ally, you would have worn orange and black instead of red and white. if you were an actual ally, you would have donated your money to indigenous organizations instead of purchasing frivolous Canada day products.

celebrating canada day celebrates colonialism, genocide and stolen land. end of story.

if you are one of my followers and have no idea what i am talking about i encourage you to read more about residential schools in canada and the 60s scoop as a starting point! support indigenous organizations and businesses if you are able!

i'm not going to sit around here today and let this slide without saying anything. i'm not celebrating canada day and never will, not after the canadian government institutionalized to "kill the indian in the child." not after knowing what my grandmother would have experienced in those institutions.

[cathnews]

Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission judge fails pope's apology

Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission judge fails pope’s apology

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission into historic abuse of Indigenous people demanded apologies. Pope Francis apologised on Monday. Not everyone thinks it was enough. Some regard Francis’s words as a “historic” moment of reckoning for the 150,000 Indigenous students forced to attend residential schools. But a former judge and senator who chaired the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A high-profile Cree lawyer from Saskatchewan is calling for residential school denialism to be added to the Criminal Code alongside Holocaust denialism, in the wake of a recent interim report by Canada's special interlocutor on missing children and unmarked graves.

"It's the same," lawyer Eleanore Sunchild told CBC News.

"If you deny that that happened — if you deny the whole residential school system and its impact on Indigenous people and the trauma that was created from those schools and the deaths — then, of course, it should be seen as hate speech."

Under section 319 of the criminal code, the wilful promotion of hatred or antisemitism, unless in a private conversation, could lead to up to two years in prison. This includes "condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust."

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[muirneach]

peoples understanding of indigenous culture and politics and history is honestly piss poor like read a couple wikipedia pages read the newspaper read tribal websites and editorials god

[cyberbeing26]

A human being after acquiring the refuge of a true master or Guru must worship the true God for eternal peace and happiness. Saint Rampal Ji Maharaj is the only true Guru in this world who guarantees peace happiness and salvation.

[bossymarmalade]

shíshálh announces 40 residential ‘school’ graves, as chief pleads: ‘do not normalize this’

Chief yalxwemult’ Lenora Joe said that the ground-penetrating radar has sadly revealed what appear to be “shallow graves, only large enough for the young bodies to lay in a fetal position.”

“These children were our aunties, they were our uncles, they were our future leaders that we never met. They never grew up. And decades later they are still lost children.”

Run by the Catholic Church and “Canada”, the St. Augustine’s Indian Residential School operated on and off in “Sechelt” between 1904 and 1975.

“We have always known our children were missing. This is not news to us.”

[artcgirl]

This was a hard movie to watch. But so necessary. I hope it will be used to further the conversation and to teach the children Canadas true history. And at the end of the day bring justice to the survivors and there families.

I'm Mohawk, Irish and Dutch. My fathers mother came off the reserve in Ohsweken Ontario. Six Nations of The Grand River. She married and Irish man. His family disowned him. She was banned from the reserve. They had 8 children will little support. The children's aid was called because my grandpa had turned to drinking, and my grandma became abusive. The children where taken. and my grandmas sisters and brothers thought they would get custody of the children. But the government placed them in white household all over Canada. They eventual found each other later in life. But the damage had been done. I often wonder if my grandma married someone not native to protect her children from residential school. But they became part of the sixties scoop (60s Scoop). Their culture and community were still taken away from them.