1. The discovery of a mass grave at Kamloops Residential School last month with as many as 215 remains was shocking but not surprising. The Canadian federal government has long known there are likely many such graves across the country but refused to investigate
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3. Lots of outstanding questions still on the residential school, about the Vaticans refusal to apologize, about records still being kept hidden or destroyed, about the state and church playing the blame game against each other.
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4. To understand the story better, I interviewed the historian Sarah Nickel, who both studies Indigenous activism and is from from the nation of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the community whose children were forced into Kamloops residential schoolhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-mass-graves-and-indigenous?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Canada’s Residential Schools were a full on crime—intentional child abduction, widespread abuse and cultural genocide as a policy that lasted decades and created a legacy of trauma that is crossing generations. 1/2
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But to say the Canadian government is t facing the truth—successive governments—is just incorrect. It’s false. They face the truth. A government-funded commission sought it out and recorded it. What they’re not doing is responding—performing all the actions needed to heal. 2/2
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