On May 18, 2021, With help from investigators using ground-penetrating
radar, the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation discovered the remains of
215 Indigenous children on the grounds of a former residential school
near the town of Kamloops in the interior of southern British Columbia.
As horrifying as this was, it almost dwarfed a new discovery a month
later. Investigators working with the Cowessess First Nation using the
same kind of radar came across another 751 unmarked graves at the former
Marieval Indian Residential School residential school run by the
Catholic Church.
Twenty years ago, I was deeply involved with research about these
genocidal crimes and working to get the word out about indigenous
people’s efforts to achieve justice. About five percent of Canadian
citizens are indigenous so they have more social weight to challenge the
racist establishment.
Around that time I reviewed Roland Chrisjohn’s “The Circle Game: Shadows
and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada”, a
ground-breaking book written by a Haudenausaunee (Mohawk) Indian. Keep
in mind that the Haudenausaunee were driven into Canada by General John
Sullivan for siding with the British. That John Sullivan was the same
man my Borscht Belt county upstate was named after, an irony considering
that the county’s large Jewish population including many Holocaust
survivors.
Just 20 years ago, I attended a tribunal on residential schools at the
Blackfoot reservation in Calgary. Beneath you can read the report I
wrote for my Columbia University website at the time. This was long
before blogs had been developed. It will give you an idea of the
fighting spirit other First Nations will deploy when they go up against
the Canadian ruling class.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2021/06/26/the-genocidal-canadian-residential-schools/
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