Not at all surprising it is the cult of the Indians today the "Gimee Gimee " cult those seeking Billions of tax payer $ from those that do work for a living and it is never going to end.
Allow me to tell you a truthful fact on residential schools, my brother in law just received a $10,000 gift from the Govt for attending such a school at a far north location, he is white his parents are Canadian born not indian not metis just a plain old settler. This school educated hundreds of Canadian children as well as Indian so all attended and all got the 10k I might add that he stated it was a wonderful school and everyone enjoyed going there he is my age 75. Time enough stop the BS tell the truth for cryin out loud.
The Churchill Vocational School was established at an abandoned military base in Churchill, Manitoba in 1964 for Inuit students from the Eastern Arctic who were seeking post-secondary training. While the school was non-denominational, the hostel associated with the school employed Roman Catholic and Anglican staff and the students were segregated on the basis of denomination. Some of the students also took classes at the local Duke of Edinburgh School. Because it was always considered a temporary facility, school administrators had ongoing difficulties in getting the federal government to make needed upgrades to the building.
Representatives of the Alaska-based Baptist Evangelization Society founded the Whitehorse Indian Baptist Mission day school in 1947. A student residence in an army-surplus building was added later that year. Indian Affairs provided funding for salaries and school supplies along with a per student payment. A 1956 Indian Affairs report found the residence “very unsatisfactory.” When the building was condemned in 1960, the federal government stopped funding the school, but it remained in operation until 1962.
I work in a school and knew this was BS from day one...I never partake in it.... tomorrow I will wear black..... the admin will probably come and give me a Every Child Matters pin to wear since I have not bought into this narrative...... they started the orange shirts around the school since first day of school this year, already....it never effin' ends.....
Update..... only me and another staff did not wear orange yesterday...most of the kids did...... but first thing in the morning, in the hallway, a kid says to another kid, "Hey, where's your orange shirt?" Other student says, "I don't have one." First kid says, "What? You're suppose to!"
So, I say, "Wait, are you getting angry at her for not wearing an orange shirt? Why? Isn't the whole point of this to not bully people into doing what everyone else is doing? (pause) Oh, and why aren't you telling me to wear an orange shirt? You can wear one if you want or not, right?"
Head nod and from both.
Then, I take the corner and a teacher says, right in front of other staff, "Hey, where is your orange shirt?" So, I say, "I don't own one and that's ok...let's not pick on the people who don't have one....isn't' that the point to all this?" She says, "Oh, I was just kidding." So, then I said, "Also, I am not a billboard."...... one day...soon, I will be fired or at least re-educated.....
Sounds like Phyllis accepted a lucrative contract to spin yarns about those mean old nuns and those "nasty" residential schools. Time to reconcile the truth!
That was a very informative article which explains all the "real truths" about orange shirt day. Having had the opportunity of reading so many enlightening articles I have come to appreciate the art of indigenous embellishment, victim hood, distorted truths, entitlement and most obvious, appropriation. Truth and reconciliation was borrowed from apartheid South Africa and genocide from the Jewish Shoah. Surely they could have come up with something more original. As for Boarding School rules. My wife attended a Catholic boarding school for four years. As was required of the time, uniforms had to be worn and only English or French could be spoken. Thousands of people have had similar experiences without the slightest outcry of injustice. Why is that, I wonder ???
"The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame." - Viola Davis
I read most of this article on Phyllis recounting. Yes our children are being indoctrinated and it will not stop folks. If it didn't dawn on anyone yet - school IS indocrination UNLESS on their door is posted HONOUR a child's integrity. We treat a human being as who they are a human being." That means past kindergarten into HIGH SCHOOL where the crap really happens. This is a smooth well-oiled and currently lucrative industry. I have a good slant on all of this. I myself went to a very religious boarding school that some might offer as a 'nice place'. For me with decades separateing me from that crazy-making place- it still remains 'right up there' as the most awful experience I ever had in 'school' and I had my share of other ones to select from.
I also for a time lived on a reservation in northern Alberta. Kind, generous, crazy, dangerous, loving, poor poor people who kept food, fish, game on the table but with nothing in the cupboards. I also met the Dene who lived in the bush far from shops and access to electricity. Forfeiting any government shell outs to keep their children safe and away from The Census Taker.
I want you to stop please. Stop maligning this lady. The TRUTH is that all these children you see in front of those RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS are already ORPHANS as are their parents, and their parents parents. Orphans why? Because greed destroyed hunting grounds, took their parents lives, dismembered their culture. Don't also think I am liked by some indigenous people either. I do think the residential school news is too heavily weighted into ONE big ugly event that did the deed.
This pulls the focus away from for example, a disgusting Treaty Day Money dole-out. How much do you these people received from government?
"Finally I though to myself at the age of 19 years, these people will get some money to help them out."
How much was it?
FIVE DOLLARS in 1970.
FIVE DOLLARS and TIMBER Rights but guess what - NO MILL!
Think ORPHANS and we will be closer to the truth. Please stop slamming the lady. Leave her alone.
Plenty of energy you can put to good use going after: DEVELOPERS. REAL CROOKS. POLITICIANS. Helping the Planet? Thanks for reading.
But a whole national movement is built upon what is more or less a fabrication, and children are being inculcated with a sense of shame and guilt based on this more or less fabrication. What is good about that?
I don't think it was greed that created the broken homes and family dysfunction. Reserve apartheid and alcohol are the main culprits who are the unspoken elephants in the room. There were indigenous families living in my rural community who left the reserve and prospered very well. Were there is a will there is a way.
'Kemosabe' really...specially in this context? Well...moving forward. On the subject of
Greed. Once called a deadly sin is now, especially on this continent celebrated, even worshipped. Our monster appetite for stuff continues to grow unchecked. Now I am inspiring myself to be more resourceful. See.
I agree, Donna, that we shouldn’t be maligning Phyllis Webstad personally. Her story was an innocent-enough reminiscence when she told it at that commemoration gathering in 2013, never anticipating that it would be exploited to the extent that it has been. Once she was drawn into the spotlight of celebrity over this, she probably lost a lot of control over the direction the story took (or at least, was subjected to heavy persuasion and influence from people with particular agendas). I suspect, though, that the more positive aspects that appear in the book(s) were included at her insistence.
That said, I checked the Niagara pow wow link in Nina Green’s article, and Webstad is quoted as saying, at that 2022 event,
“Children were killed and often thrown in the incinerators alive. That’s another truth that happened all across Canada,” Webstad added, visibly shaken as she wiped at her eyes under her glasses. “There were three girls in the community who were tasked with burning babies at 10 years old,” she recalled.
Webstad, like so many others, has been captured by the horror narrative, and has learned to say what people expect to hear. She's been exploited by that well-oiled machine you mention.
Joan, you have a wonderful way with words. Webstad's colorful narrative about babies being thrown live into incinerators by ten year old girls is a good story and as Mark Twain once said, "never let truth get in the way of a good story". In this case, she definetly hasn't.
And what's even more "horrific" (if Webstad is being quoted faithfully by the Niagara Now reporter) is that children were KILLED and then thrown into those incinerators ALIVE.
I live in the heart of Niagara and if they had a barbecue, I should have been invited. These lies are growing as fast as the fabled beanstalk that Jack climbed up. Do you actually think they believe what they say or are just playing to a crowd.
Acts of kindness that occur within a system wholly dedicated to the erasure of everything that made a person does not mean that person should stop talking about that system.
You wouldn’t ask a Rwandan survivor to include every act of kindness in their telling. You wouldn’t ask a Chinese businessman to recount every act of kindness in his time in an re-education camp during the cultural revolution. We can easily see that those were bad things that caused an incredible amount of suffering that ripples out for generations to come.
I came to Canada when I was 11 and felt compelled to erase my culture. I lost my accent in 6 months and the person I was died. It’s taken decades to deal with that, I almost lost everything many times and have had to rebuild from nothing over and over again.
No one should have to experience that and when someone does, we should do everything we can to bring them back into a place of belonging.
If you don’t want to do that, you have to ask yourself why that person doesn’t deserve a place in your world.
Rituals of white/Canadian guilt....which "just happen" to turn into employment opportunities for various indigenous groups and their allies. It is so clearly a power strategy---doesn't anyone notice that NO "racist" and "oppressive" Canadian institutions are being dismantled? No Western ideas are being rejected--just being replaced with the new, correct heroes to run them and inspire us.
Take careful note of the Recommendations of the Deschenes Report (1968) into the issue of possible War Criminals living in Canada.
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It does seem clear to me that 98-year old Hunka is being used as a political pawn. While I am very much a supporter of both Rebel News and The Epoch Times, it does appear as thought they have conducted very little research before strongly implying that Hunka was a Nazi or a war criminal.
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It has been my experience that men tend to join the same battalions as their buddies, and give no thought to political issues. The Ukrainian HOLODOMOR where 4 million Ukrainians were starved to death ended in 1933, and WW-2 began in 1939. All that is clear is that many Ukrainians joined NATIONALIST battalions to fight against Russia.
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In the case of the Galician Division there was a signed agreement with Himmler when it was integrated into the Waffen-SS that they would NOT fight against any of the Western Allied forces. How many Italian immigrants fought against the Allies during WW-2 ??? How about the WALLOON (Belgian) regiment, or the Indian Division, and numerous other WAFFEN-SS Divisions?
There are many titles by Phyllis Webstad on Amazon, and it’s worth noting that following the success of 2018’s *The Orange Shirt Story*, a 2019 adaptation titled “Phyllis’s Orange Shirt” was produced where the scary-looking nuns were removed from the front cover art – likely to make it more suitable for younger children (it’s suggested for 4-6 year-olds), though perhaps it was also a correction of sorts. Most of the inside illustrations appear to be the same, though the text has been simplified.
On Amazon, the original (2018) book is suggested for 7-10 year-olds.
Wondering if you have a source for the Mission becoming a hostel only by the time Webstad was there - online, I am only seeing the fed takeover date in 1969, with it still being referred to as “the school” until closure in 1981.
This precise information is indeed hard to find online, even in the TRC history volumes (and even in this detailed timeline: https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/index.php/Gallery/431 ). The best source is Phyllis's own story (see at about the 6 minute mark in the video embedded in Green's article).
From *The Orange Shirt Story* (2018): “Each day, the children went into town to attend the public school [illustration shows children disembarking from a yellow school bus] . . . Phyllis took the bus to public school with her cousin. Every day the bus driver dropped her cousin off at a different school. Phyllis wished she could go with her; she didn’t understand why they couldn’t be together. At school, Phyllis learned to read and write with all the other boys and girls, but she was still lonely. All the children from the residential school were lonely because they had been taken away from their homes and their families.”
After that one year, the book tells us, “she never went back to the residential school again. Not every child was as lucky as Phyllis. [The End].”
But we know from Phyllis’ story on the Orange Shirt Society website that Phyllis continued in the public school system (though it doesn’t say where, or with whom she stayed). She had her son Jeremy when she was 13 and in grade eight.
And here is an update on Phyllis that seems to have been removed from the OSS website (but remains in many Facebook posts):
<< Phyllis Webstad is Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (Canoe Creek Indian Band). She comes from mixed Secwepemc and Irish/French heritage, was born in Dog Creek, and lives in Williams Lake, BC. Today, Phyllis is married, has one son, a step-son and five grandchildren. She is the Executive Director of the Orange Shirt Society, and tours the country telling her story and raising awareness about the impacts of the residential school system. She has now published two books, the "Orange Shirt Story" and "Phyllis's Orange Shirt" for younger children.
<< She earned diplomas in Business Administration from the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology; and in Accounting from Thompson Rivers University. Phyllis received the 2017 TRU Distinguished Alumni Award for her unprecedented impact on local, provincial, national and international communities through the sharing of her orange shirt story. >>
Not at all surprising it is the cult of the Indians today the "Gimee Gimee " cult those seeking Billions of tax payer $ from those that do work for a living and it is never going to end.
Allow me to tell you a truthful fact on residential schools, my brother in law just received a $10,000 gift from the Govt for attending such a school at a far north location, he is white his parents are Canadian born not indian not metis just a plain old settler. This school educated hundreds of Canadian children as well as Indian so all attended and all got the 10k I might add that he stated it was a wonderful school and everyone enjoyed going there he is my age 75. Time enough stop the BS tell the truth for cryin out loud.
Hey Peter, thanks for this. Do you know which residential school your friend attended?
Churchill, Whitehorse
Hey Peter, Nina Green has some questions about the school your brother in law attended. Here is what she is asking:
I’m a bit puzzled. Churchill, Manitoba and Whitehorse in the Yukon are a long way apart. There was a vocational school at Churchill:
https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/manitoba/churchill/
The Churchill Vocational School was established at an abandoned military base in Churchill, Manitoba in 1964 for Inuit students from the Eastern Arctic who were seeking post-secondary training. While the school was non-denominational, the hostel associated with the school employed Roman Catholic and Anglican staff and the students were segregated on the basis of denomination. Some of the students also took classes at the local Duke of Edinburgh School. Because it was always considered a temporary facility, school administrators had ongoing difficulties in getting the federal government to make needed upgrades to the building.
There was a Baptist school at Whitehorse:
https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/northern/whitehorse-baptist-lee-school/
Representatives of the Alaska-based Baptist Evangelization Society founded the Whitehorse Indian Baptist Mission day school in 1947. A student residence in an army-surplus building was added later that year. Indian Affairs provided funding for salaries and school supplies along with a per student payment. A 1956 Indian Affairs report found the residence “very unsatisfactory.” When the building was condemned in 1960, the federal government stopped funding the school, but it remained in operation until 1962.
What do you think?
Thanks Peter
Great information.
Kind of like the almost completely fabricated story about Chanie Wenjack
I think I would opt for Peter Pan, considering he had so many lost children there.
I work in a school and knew this was BS from day one...I never partake in it.... tomorrow I will wear black..... the admin will probably come and give me a Every Child Matters pin to wear since I have not bought into this narrative...... they started the orange shirts around the school since first day of school this year, already....it never effin' ends.....
Update..... only me and another staff did not wear orange yesterday...most of the kids did...... but first thing in the morning, in the hallway, a kid says to another kid, "Hey, where's your orange shirt?" Other student says, "I don't have one." First kid says, "What? You're suppose to!"
So, I say, "Wait, are you getting angry at her for not wearing an orange shirt? Why? Isn't the whole point of this to not bully people into doing what everyone else is doing? (pause) Oh, and why aren't you telling me to wear an orange shirt? You can wear one if you want or not, right?"
Head nod and from both.
Then, I take the corner and a teacher says, right in front of other staff, "Hey, where is your orange shirt?" So, I say, "I don't own one and that's ok...let's not pick on the people who don't have one....isn't' that the point to all this?" She says, "Oh, I was just kidding." So, then I said, "Also, I am not a billboard."...... one day...soon, I will be fired or at least re-educated.....
A giant industry sucking taxpayer dollars and creating zero value. Also anti-historical.
Sounds like Phyllis accepted a lucrative contract to spin yarns about those mean old nuns and those "nasty" residential schools. Time to reconcile the truth!
That was a very informative article which explains all the "real truths" about orange shirt day. Having had the opportunity of reading so many enlightening articles I have come to appreciate the art of indigenous embellishment, victim hood, distorted truths, entitlement and most obvious, appropriation. Truth and reconciliation was borrowed from apartheid South Africa and genocide from the Jewish Shoah. Surely they could have come up with something more original. As for Boarding School rules. My wife attended a Catholic boarding school for four years. As was required of the time, uniforms had to be worn and only English or French could be spoken. Thousands of people have had similar experiences without the slightest outcry of injustice. Why is that, I wonder ???
"The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame." - Viola Davis
Perhaps her memory was triggered by watching The Blues Brothers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDcP9uSMra4
What an appropriate clip from a great movie. Definetly a possible source of inspiration.
I read most of this article on Phyllis recounting. Yes our children are being indoctrinated and it will not stop folks. If it didn't dawn on anyone yet - school IS indocrination UNLESS on their door is posted HONOUR a child's integrity. We treat a human being as who they are a human being." That means past kindergarten into HIGH SCHOOL where the crap really happens. This is a smooth well-oiled and currently lucrative industry. I have a good slant on all of this. I myself went to a very religious boarding school that some might offer as a 'nice place'. For me with decades separateing me from that crazy-making place- it still remains 'right up there' as the most awful experience I ever had in 'school' and I had my share of other ones to select from.
I also for a time lived on a reservation in northern Alberta. Kind, generous, crazy, dangerous, loving, poor poor people who kept food, fish, game on the table but with nothing in the cupboards. I also met the Dene who lived in the bush far from shops and access to electricity. Forfeiting any government shell outs to keep their children safe and away from The Census Taker.
I want you to stop please. Stop maligning this lady. The TRUTH is that all these children you see in front of those RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS are already ORPHANS as are their parents, and their parents parents. Orphans why? Because greed destroyed hunting grounds, took their parents lives, dismembered their culture. Don't also think I am liked by some indigenous people either. I do think the residential school news is too heavily weighted into ONE big ugly event that did the deed.
This pulls the focus away from for example, a disgusting Treaty Day Money dole-out. How much do you these people received from government?
"Finally I though to myself at the age of 19 years, these people will get some money to help them out."
How much was it?
FIVE DOLLARS in 1970.
FIVE DOLLARS and TIMBER Rights but guess what - NO MILL!
Think ORPHANS and we will be closer to the truth. Please stop slamming the lady. Leave her alone.
Plenty of energy you can put to good use going after: DEVELOPERS. REAL CROOKS. POLITICIANS. Helping the Planet? Thanks for reading.
But a whole national movement is built upon what is more or less a fabrication, and children are being inculcated with a sense of shame and guilt based on this more or less fabrication. What is good about that?
I don't think it was greed that created the broken homes and family dysfunction. Reserve apartheid and alcohol are the main culprits who are the unspoken elephants in the room. There were indigenous families living in my rural community who left the reserve and prospered very well. Were there is a will there is a way.
'Kemosabe' really...specially in this context? Well...moving forward. On the subject of
Greed. Once called a deadly sin is now, especially on this continent celebrated, even worshipped. Our monster appetite for stuff continues to grow unchecked. Now I am inspiring myself to be more resourceful. See.
I agree, Donna, that we shouldn’t be maligning Phyllis Webstad personally. Her story was an innocent-enough reminiscence when she told it at that commemoration gathering in 2013, never anticipating that it would be exploited to the extent that it has been. Once she was drawn into the spotlight of celebrity over this, she probably lost a lot of control over the direction the story took (or at least, was subjected to heavy persuasion and influence from people with particular agendas). I suspect, though, that the more positive aspects that appear in the book(s) were included at her insistence.
That said, I checked the Niagara pow wow link in Nina Green’s article, and Webstad is quoted as saying, at that 2022 event,
“Children were killed and often thrown in the incinerators alive. That’s another truth that happened all across Canada,” Webstad added, visibly shaken as she wiped at her eyes under her glasses. “There were three girls in the community who were tasked with burning babies at 10 years old,” she recalled.
Webstad, like so many others, has been captured by the horror narrative, and has learned to say what people expect to hear. She's been exploited by that well-oiled machine you mention.
Joan, you have a wonderful way with words. Webstad's colorful narrative about babies being thrown live into incinerators by ten year old girls is a good story and as Mark Twain once said, "never let truth get in the way of a good story". In this case, she definetly hasn't.
And what's even more "horrific" (if Webstad is being quoted faithfully by the Niagara Now reporter) is that children were KILLED and then thrown into those incinerators ALIVE.
I live in the heart of Niagara and if they had a barbecue, I should have been invited. These lies are growing as fast as the fabled beanstalk that Jack climbed up. Do you actually think they believe what they say or are just playing to a crowd.
Took me a minute, Kemosabe (sometimes your humour is too dark for me).
Webstad would have been referring to Williams Lake/St. Joseph's, I imagine, which is ground zero for the incinerator stories.
Great, thanks.
By the way Mr. Pew enjoy reading your articles for fresh insights. dTb
The school was at Churchill
Acts of kindness that occur within a system wholly dedicated to the erasure of everything that made a person does not mean that person should stop talking about that system.
You wouldn’t ask a Rwandan survivor to include every act of kindness in their telling. You wouldn’t ask a Chinese businessman to recount every act of kindness in his time in an re-education camp during the cultural revolution. We can easily see that those were bad things that caused an incredible amount of suffering that ripples out for generations to come.
I came to Canada when I was 11 and felt compelled to erase my culture. I lost my accent in 6 months and the person I was died. It’s taken decades to deal with that, I almost lost everything many times and have had to rebuild from nothing over and over again.
No one should have to experience that and when someone does, we should do everything we can to bring them back into a place of belonging.
If you don’t want to do that, you have to ask yourself why that person doesn’t deserve a place in your world.
Rituals of white/Canadian guilt....which "just happen" to turn into employment opportunities for various indigenous groups and their allies. It is so clearly a power strategy---doesn't anyone notice that NO "racist" and "oppressive" Canadian institutions are being dismantled? No Western ideas are being rejected--just being replaced with the new, correct heroes to run them and inspire us.
Take careful note of the Recommendations of the Deschenes Report (1968) into the issue of possible War Criminals living in Canada.
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It does seem clear to me that 98-year old Hunka is being used as a political pawn. While I am very much a supporter of both Rebel News and The Epoch Times, it does appear as thought they have conducted very little research before strongly implying that Hunka was a Nazi or a war criminal.
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It has been my experience that men tend to join the same battalions as their buddies, and give no thought to political issues. The Ukrainian HOLODOMOR where 4 million Ukrainians were starved to death ended in 1933, and WW-2 began in 1939. All that is clear is that many Ukrainians joined NATIONALIST battalions to fight against Russia.
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In the case of the Galician Division there was a signed agreement with Himmler when it was integrated into the Waffen-SS that they would NOT fight against any of the Western Allied forces. How many Italian immigrants fought against the Allies during WW-2 ??? How about the WALLOON (Belgian) regiment, or the Indian Division, and numerous other WAFFEN-SS Divisions?
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https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/bcp-pco/CP32-52-1986-5-eng.pdf
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EXTRACT (pages 10-11, Deschennes Report Recommendations)
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56· The Galicia Division (l4. Waffengrenadierdivision der SS [gal. Nr.
I]) should not be indicted as a group. (p. 261)
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57- The members of the Galicia Division were individually screened for
security purposes before admission to Canada. (p. 261)
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58- Charges of war crimes against members of the Galicia Division have
never been substantiated, neither in 1950 when they were first
preferred, nor in 1984 when they were renewed, nor before this
Commission. (p. 261)
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59- Further, in the absence of evidence of participation in or knowledge
of specific war crimes, mere membership in the Galicia Division is
insufficient to justify prosecution. (p. 261)
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60- No case can be made against members of the Galicia Division for
revocation of citizenship or deportation since the Canadian
authorities were fully aware of the relevant facts in 1950 and
admission to Canada was not granted them because of any false
representation, or fraud, or concealment of material circumstances.
(p.26l)
61- In any event, of the 217 officers of the Galicia Division denounced by
Mr. Simon Wiesenthal to the Canadian government, 187 (i.e., 86 per
cent of the list) never set foot in Canada, 11 have died in Canada, 2
have left for another country, no prima facie case has been established against 16 and the last one could not be located. (p. 261) .
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• View CP32-52-1986-1-eng.pdf (PDF, 8.48 MB).
• View CP32-52-1986-2-eng.pdf (PDF, 8.71 MB).
• View CP32-52-1986-3-eng.pdf (PDF, 8.26 MB).
• View CP32-52-1986-4-eng.pdf (PDF, 7.74 MB).
• View CP32-52-1986-5-eng.pdf (PDF, 767 KB).
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Yes, the Liberals did screw-up big time on this one, but there is ZERO EVIDENCE against Hunka.
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There are many titles by Phyllis Webstad on Amazon, and it’s worth noting that following the success of 2018’s *The Orange Shirt Story*, a 2019 adaptation titled “Phyllis’s Orange Shirt” was produced where the scary-looking nuns were removed from the front cover art – likely to make it more suitable for younger children (it’s suggested for 4-6 year-olds), though perhaps it was also a correction of sorts. Most of the inside illustrations appear to be the same, though the text has been simplified.
On Amazon, the original (2018) book is suggested for 7-10 year-olds.
Wondering if you have a source for the Mission becoming a hostel only by the time Webstad was there - online, I am only seeing the fed takeover date in 1969, with it still being referred to as “the school” until closure in 1981.
This precise information is indeed hard to find online, even in the TRC history volumes (and even in this detailed timeline: https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/index.php/Gallery/431 ). The best source is Phyllis's own story (see at about the 6 minute mark in the video embedded in Green's article).
From *The Orange Shirt Story* (2018): “Each day, the children went into town to attend the public school [illustration shows children disembarking from a yellow school bus] . . . Phyllis took the bus to public school with her cousin. Every day the bus driver dropped her cousin off at a different school. Phyllis wished she could go with her; she didn’t understand why they couldn’t be together. At school, Phyllis learned to read and write with all the other boys and girls, but she was still lonely. All the children from the residential school were lonely because they had been taken away from their homes and their families.”
After that one year, the book tells us, “she never went back to the residential school again. Not every child was as lucky as Phyllis. [The End].”
But we know from Phyllis’ story on the Orange Shirt Society website that Phyllis continued in the public school system (though it doesn’t say where, or with whom she stayed). She had her son Jeremy when she was 13 and in grade eight.
And here is an update on Phyllis that seems to have been removed from the OSS website (but remains in many Facebook posts):
<< Phyllis Webstad is Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (Canoe Creek Indian Band). She comes from mixed Secwepemc and Irish/French heritage, was born in Dog Creek, and lives in Williams Lake, BC. Today, Phyllis is married, has one son, a step-son and five grandchildren. She is the Executive Director of the Orange Shirt Society, and tours the country telling her story and raising awareness about the impacts of the residential school system. She has now published two books, the "Orange Shirt Story" and "Phyllis's Orange Shirt" for younger children.
<< She earned diplomas in Business Administration from the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology; and in Accounting from Thompson Rivers University. Phyllis received the 2017 TRU Distinguished Alumni Award for her unprecedented impact on local, provincial, national and international communities through the sharing of her orange shirt story. >>