Residential School Reflection
What happened in residential schools was not "cultural genocide", it wasn't "language genocide" and it wasn't "almost genocide". What happened in residential schools was genocide. Assimilation and elimination of indians was purely for economic and political gain. Residential schools were never a well-intent "gone wrong". They were death almost half of all the children who entered some of those schools.
The kids didn't die from some series of unfortunate and unpreventable events in those schools. Many of these children were starved, tortured, raped, and murdered.
Survivor stories of frequent rapes, forced abortions, and unmarked graves stand in contradiction to any belief of an educational policy -- especially
What happened in residential schools was not "cultural genocide", it wasn't "language genocide" and it wasn't "almost genocide". What happened in residential schools was genocide. Assimilation and elimination of indians was purely for economic and political gain. Residential schools were never a well-intent "gone wrong". They were death almost half of all the children who entered some of those schools.
The kids didn't die from some series of unfortunate and unpreventable events in those schools. Many of these children were starved, tortured, raped, and murdered.
Survivor stories of frequent rapes, forced abortions, and unmarked graves stand in contradiction to any belief of an educational policy -- especially