Eddie, Although you have not qualified the word genocide with “cultural” it is important to call it what it is “cultural genocide” or else one might get the impression the whole race of indigenous children of the First Nations were slaughtered or killed.
The sins of the white priests and nuns running these schools might have been horror-provoking but the graves being found were not of children that were killed by those in authority whatever else might have been the indignities heaped on them. Those graves contain the bodies of children that died of loneliness or insufficient care or tortuous discipline, even of disease but they were not directly killed. That is the narrative that is known to us so far, unless the Church agrees to open its records and we know otherwise. Autopsies on bones are not possible because in the Indigenous culture, burial mounds (graves) are sacred, worthy of worship and no one will be allowed to work on them. Analyses of remains might have told us the story of those buried. While the Catholic Church does not apologize for the treatment of these wards in their schools, the government on several occasions has expressed public remorse. The Church might be afraid of the legal ramifications, the Government has no such fears. Roland. Eddie D’Sa wrote: 751 unmarked graves believed to include the burial sites of Native children from a Catholic residential school have been found in Canada, in Saskatchewan province. The graves were found in a cemetery at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan province, which borders the US to the south. The Catholic institution operated for almost a century from 1899 to 1997, as part of a Canadian school system created to europeanise native children by forcibly taking the children from their parents and destroying their culture. This seems to be the white man's way.Last month, the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years of age, were discovered at a similar burial site near former school grounds in the province of British Columbia. Pope Francis said the findings pained but he would not apologise. Looks like the white-led Church only apologises for white victims. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) said that ground-penetrating radar had been used to locate unmarked graves. At a news conference on Thursday, Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said research teams had registered 751 “recorded hits” in their scans of the site, but that each grave could contain more than one set of remains, and further technical examinations would be carried out. There are oral stories that there are adults in this gravesite, as well,”Earlier, local political leaders called on the Catholic Church to release its records relating to the schools and its students. “We need to work alongside the communities that continue to search the residential school sites and make sure we find all of these unmarked graves,” politician Ryan Meili said in a CBC interview. The indigenous school system was funded by the Canadian government and run by the Catholic Church, and operated until the late 1990s. There were nearly 140 such institutions around the country, with an enrolment of some 150,000 Native children who had been forcibly taken from their families to be taught a new language, culture, and religion. Canada has accused Beijing of genocide, but ignores its own genocide. Eddie
