The aboriginal 'industry' we now face was never built for the welfare of anyone but itself and its hangers-on.
And the reason this happened was that its regime driven deregulatory and accountability privatizing management was always going to be a chaotic catastrophe for people who had very little existential fat in the system to carry them over the predatory effects of indulgence on social behavior and moral boundaries, as disciplined rules-based behavior got systematically edged out.
This created a huge regime management problem, which was how to divert attention from its own incompetence and malfeasance.
And the logical answer was policy driven by virtue signaling color and movement combined with relentless blame shifting and ideological assault on its predecessors, who would be systematically destroyed by the people who controlled the information data flows and distribution systems, while the supposed beneficiaries of all this activity quietly moldered in the valley of the shadow of existential destruction, made worse by greasing the sides of the cliff with quasi-religious sanctimony and a degree of slippery hypocrisy never before achieved.
Very informative and thanks for posting. I have to believe this situation is more common than reported. The Leader Post in 1971 listed an article were the Indian Community argued for the Marieval School to remain open when the government wanted to close it. They argued that they had to be a place for homeless and disadvantaged children to go and that the Res School provided the necessary discipline and religious education needed. Funny, no mention of the 751 unmarked graves at that time. Wonder why ???????????
Coming in late on this one. I found the linked Indian Record very interesting, and particularly the quote by Father G.P. Dunlop, principal of the Kamloops IRS (on page 5):
". . . the white man, on his part, must stop believing that to be considered equal the Indian should cease to be an Indian. If this continent has any claim to greatness it is because of different cultures being brought here to be moulded into one. Let us give the Indian a chance to contribute his culture instead of denying them the opportunity. . . . Kindness is not enough. You can be kind to your spaniel. The Indian must be accepted on equal terms."
It’s indicating they wanted cruelty, in actual fact , they wanted more Indian residential schools in there communities because it was a law that you HAD to send your kids to residential school in 1959! Indigenous didn’t want to ship there kids to a school so far away that they couldn’t see them for a whole year, especially when so many were dying and starving, mentally and emotionally abused, molested and beaten, they wanted more schools in there communities so they could have there children home at night, hence they needed more schools close to each community so that they could still see there children not send them away for the whole year.
I find this article is arrogant in assumption! Check your facts!
No, residential school attendance was not compulsory in 1959. Compulsory residential school attendance was from 1920 until 1947 only, if there were no alternatives, such as day schools. The highest percentage of kids attending residential schools happened in the 1930's.. about 30 per cent of indigenous kids attended them then. By 1950, most were attending day schools on their home reserves. Schooling itself was compulsory for all children in Canada to age 16 in the nineteen fifties. At my public school, in 1960, we had a number of indigenous students attending. Kids at residential schools did go home for Christmas, Easter, and summer holidays.
The aboriginal 'industry' we now face was never built for the welfare of anyone but itself and its hangers-on.
And the reason this happened was that its regime driven deregulatory and accountability privatizing management was always going to be a chaotic catastrophe for people who had very little existential fat in the system to carry them over the predatory effects of indulgence on social behavior and moral boundaries, as disciplined rules-based behavior got systematically edged out.
This created a huge regime management problem, which was how to divert attention from its own incompetence and malfeasance.
And the logical answer was policy driven by virtue signaling color and movement combined with relentless blame shifting and ideological assault on its predecessors, who would be systematically destroyed by the people who controlled the information data flows and distribution systems, while the supposed beneficiaries of all this activity quietly moldered in the valley of the shadow of existential destruction, made worse by greasing the sides of the cliff with quasi-religious sanctimony and a degree of slippery hypocrisy never before achieved.
Powerful evidence that the hysteria about the evils of residential schools is recent and concocted.
Very informative and thanks for posting. I have to believe this situation is more common than reported. The Leader Post in 1971 listed an article were the Indian Community argued for the Marieval School to remain open when the government wanted to close it. They argued that they had to be a place for homeless and disadvantaged children to go and that the Res School provided the necessary discipline and religious education needed. Funny, no mention of the 751 unmarked graves at that time. Wonder why ???????????
#Gravescam
Coming in late on this one. I found the linked Indian Record very interesting, and particularly the quote by Father G.P. Dunlop, principal of the Kamloops IRS (on page 5):
". . . the white man, on his part, must stop believing that to be considered equal the Indian should cease to be an Indian. If this continent has any claim to greatness it is because of different cultures being brought here to be moulded into one. Let us give the Indian a chance to contribute his culture instead of denying them the opportunity. . . . Kindness is not enough. You can be kind to your spaniel. The Indian must be accepted on equal terms."
Clearly a genocidal attitude, wouldn't you say?
This articles is not relevant!
It’s indicating they wanted cruelty, in actual fact , they wanted more Indian residential schools in there communities because it was a law that you HAD to send your kids to residential school in 1959! Indigenous didn’t want to ship there kids to a school so far away that they couldn’t see them for a whole year, especially when so many were dying and starving, mentally and emotionally abused, molested and beaten, they wanted more schools in there communities so they could have there children home at night, hence they needed more schools close to each community so that they could still see there children not send them away for the whole year.
I find this article is arrogant in assumption! Check your facts!
No, residential school attendance was not compulsory in 1959. Compulsory residential school attendance was from 1920 until 1947 only, if there were no alternatives, such as day schools. The highest percentage of kids attending residential schools happened in the 1930's.. about 30 per cent of indigenous kids attended them then. By 1950, most were attending day schools on their home reserves. Schooling itself was compulsory for all children in Canada to age 16 in the nineteen fifties. At my public school, in 1960, we had a number of indigenous students attending. Kids at residential schools did go home for Christmas, Easter, and summer holidays.
Excellent!!!