My dem niece posted this. A step in the right direction
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My grandmother was incarcerated in a residential school for seven years…. It doesn’t effect me one bit.
My argument is not that the residential schools were a good thing. It is that the media in Canada has co-opted it and skewed the entire narrative for their own political purposes. There is no doubt that some children have had really bad experiences in those schools and some passed away (some potentially from neglect but others from natural causes, childhood mortality was much higher the further back you go) and it should be acknowledged as it has been. However, there are children who had fond memories of those school. It does not mean that the program was good as a whole or should ever be repeated (it should not) but to misrepresent it to such as degree by silencing some voices and promoting others does a disservice to everyone.
And the lesson from it is missed by almost all the politicians who exploit this issue for their political purposes, especially Trudeau. That lesson is that the government should be given less power over the people, not more. Any time it does anything, it screws it up. Furthermore, taking away the native's guns (which Trudeau wants to do, along with the rest of Canadians) is only going to open the door for things like this to happen into the future.
I wish your grandmother and you well.
I completely agree…. My grandmothers experience was tragic however it has no impact on my life other than a deep distrust of government. The politicization and continuance of the suffering through insane concepts as “bone memory” do nothing but perpetuate the tragedy.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Do you feel that if she was given the same opportunities as non-indigenous children that she could have been more successful in life, provided more opportunity to her children, including your parent, who then could have provided more opportunity to you?
She was Dukhobor, not indigenous…. They were escapees from Russia who lived communally, kinda like Amish. The BC government took offence at their lifestyle and incarcerated their children. To answer your question, no…. Despite her institutional upbringing there have been no deleterious effects on my family.