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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 14:03:08 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: London Natives mark Prisoner Justice Day Aug. 10th
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August 7, 1999 Natives marking prisoners' justice day
London Free Press Aug 7, 1999
As an angry young man, Geronimo Henry slipped easily from waking up in
residential schools to waking up in jails. "It was just an extension," says
the 63-year-old Six Nations man. "We had no values. There was no family
life in there (residential school), no hugging and loving. No one taught us
values. I came out so dysfunctional."
He's not surprised as many as 80% of native children sent to
residential schools ended up in some kind of institution by the time
they were 50.
The residential school system was run by the federal government and
churches from about 1835 to 1970. Native children were taken from their
families to the schools where they were punished for
speaking their native languages or practising their culture.
Henry was in the Mohawk Institute in Brantford from the age of six
until he was 16, from 1942 to 1952.
A $1.7-billion lawsuit against the federal government and Anglican
Church, which ran the school, alleges it was built to stamp out native
language and culture. Henry will be among those telling their stories of
incarceration, both in jail and residential schools, at a sharing circle in
London tomorrow to mark International Prisoners Justice Day. All are
welcome at the circle, which runs 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Four Points
Sheraton Hotel at 1150 Wellington Rd., S. For more information, call
652-1048.
International Prisoners Justice Day, actually Aug. 10, marks the
anniversary of Canadian Eddie Nolan's death in a solitary
confinement cell at Millhaven Penitentiary. Nolan bled to death
because guards had deactivated all the emergency call buttons in the
unit. Prisoners around the world on Tuesday will fast and refuse to work to
mark the death of Nolan and others who died behind bars.
"Let Us Consider The Human Brain As
A Very Complex Photographic Plate"
1957 G.H. Estabrooks
www.angelfire.com/mn/mcap/bc.html
FOR K A R E N #01182
who died fighting 4/23/99
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of international copyright law.
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