Reply #49: What? You're Northern Canadian History is lacking

[domlaw]

"Under the Indian Act, to provide an education to Aboriginal people, as well as to assist with their integration into the broader Canadian society."

Understand the part integration, it had nothing to do with abuse but an attempt to westernize a culture. By ripping them from their traditional hunter / gatherer existence and beat the lord into them and the Native out.

"In recent years, individuals have come forward with personal and painful stories of physical and sexual abuse at residential schools."

(How's that for western culture, I'm sure they were sexually abused at home to???)


"the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in the residential school system. The Foundation will assess and fund eligible community-based healing initiatives to address issues such as cycles of physical and sexual abuse, family violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and parenting skills."

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/gs/schl_e.html


Also see:

Genocide in the North

When the Gold Rush brought thousands of Euro-North Americans to Canada's North the original, Yukon Territory, Native inhabitants were destroyed. The government acted, from its domestic policy (of assimilation and eradication), to contain the Native population. Natives were forced to live on reserves. Alcohol, Euro-Canadian imposed diseases, and Euro-Religions were used to erase a distinct, advanced Native culture.

Church and state run Residential boarding schools stole thousands of Native children (from their families) to become victims of Genocide. Murder, sexual and physical abuse (long term), brain washing, and atomization of "the individual" (through isolation from Native culture) was regular practice. Residential schools were federally funded to achieve its political motive - Genocide. By definition, Native children were livestock.

Livestock is defined as: "using animals for profit or gain". The Yukon prison system is an arm of the economic prosperous, genocide machine. Yukon "Justice" or Corrections is a vast, extensive operation. Since September, 2002, I've conducted research into the Whitehorse prison system.

http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/whitehorse.html

Again take a visit up there and say what you just said, Yukoners are an honest bunch.