Today is the 'National Day for Truth and Reconciliation' (also known as Orange Shirt Day) in Canada where the atrocities and cultural genocide against indigenous children are remembered in the hope that it never happens again. Over the course of more than 100 years more than 150,000 native children were literally ripped from their parent's arms and transported hundreds of miles away to be systematically brain-washed and re-programmed to forget their cultural heritage and assimilate the ways of the 'white man'!
All of this was done by so called 'Christian' schools run predominantly by the Catholics but other 'Christian' churches were involved too. The children were systematically brutalized and tortured for any misdemeanour, no matter how trivial (even speaking their native tongue(s) was considered a crime) and many were sexually abused by their so-called care-givers too. It is estimated that more than 3,500 children died in these institutions (either from direct abuse or rampant diseases as the children were denied basic healthcare) and during the course of a national government investigation between 2008 and 2015 more than 1,000 bodies of children were discovered in unmarked graves close to, or at the site of, these former 'schools'!
You can read more about what went on at the following links:
en.wikipedia.org
www.canada.ca
www.culturalsurvival.org
This must never happen again!
EVERY CHILD MATTERS!
All of this was done by so called 'Christian' schools run predominantly by the Catholics but other 'Christian' churches were involved too. The children were systematically brutalized and tortured for any misdemeanour, no matter how trivial (even speaking their native tongue(s) was considered a crime) and many were sexually abused by their so-called care-givers too. It is estimated that more than 3,500 children died in these institutions (either from direct abuse or rampant diseases as the children were denied basic healthcare) and during the course of a national government investigation between 2008 and 2015 more than 1,000 bodies of children were discovered in unmarked graves close to, or at the site of, these former 'schools'!
You can read more about what went on at the following links:
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Wikipedia
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Canada.ca
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed September 30. The day honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis Survivors and their families and communities and ensures that public commemoration of the tragic and painful history of residential schools is a vital component of the...
Every Child Matters. September 30 Is Orange Shirt Day.
This must never happen again!
EVERY CHILD MATTERS!