The schools that had cemeteries instead of playgrounds

[Potoooooooo]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33099511

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its findings into more than a century of abuse in Indian Residential Schools. Between the 1880s and 1990s 150,000 aboriginal children were sent to institutions where they were stripped of their language and culture. Many faced emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

 

[krypton iodine sulfur]

Canada's relations with the aboriginal people within its borders has long been a big, convoluted, and depressing issue. Sad to say, but not a whole lot seems to be changing on that front going forward. As a very broad statement, my feeling is that the various governing agencies in Canada are fine with lip service, but not that interested in tackling the rift between aboriginal peoples and the remainder of the population.

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Canada's relations with the aboriginal people in its borders has long been a big, convoluted, and depressing issue. Sad to say, but not a whole lot seems to be changing on that front going forward. As a very broad statement, my feeling is that the various governing agencies in Canada are fine with lip service, but not that interested in tackling the rift between aboriginal peoples and the remainder of the population.

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649

Actually, I thought a ton had changed. Canada seemed to originally just ignored the problem and let the churches desecrate them. Then Canada tried to address the problem with money. That didn't work either. So then there appeared to be a more political tact with money (like Nunavat) in an attempt to help to establish the long process of creating a system of self-governance (courts, government, etc... not just the one guy in charge siphoning the federal aid). It isn't easy to undo a century plus of cultural genocide.

 

[krypton iodine sulfur]

Actually, I thought a ton had changed. Canada seemed to originally just ignored the problem and let the churches desecrate them. Then Canada tried to address the problem with money. That didn't work either. So then there appeared to be a more political tact with money (like Nunavat) in an attempt to help to establish the long process of creating a system of self-governance (courts, government, etc... not just the one guy in charge siphoning the federal aid). It isn't easy to undo a century plus of cultural genocide.

On specific issues like this, yes, sometimes. And in practical terms, I'm sure many things have improved overall and it's possible I have just become overly cynical. But as a mindset it often seems as if First Nations et al. are considered more of a nuisance which is largely only relevant when their lands have some use to the government, or when we want to make a show of having a humanitarian side.