Boarding School Healing Project
Document Native boarding school abuses so that Native communities can begin healing from boarding school abuses and demand justice. Learn More
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its really disturbing this new format that causes added to the board here, all the links and postings seems to have just disappeared into the vast void of the ethernet
My step father was in Boarding school...I was not nice place, so much went on, that you could not even begin to imagine...this is a very worthy cause.
DELIBERATE GENOCIDE OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE IN CANADA – THE FACTS
Evidence of the intent by government and churches to commit genocide against native people, reflecting a national policy and plan (documents are available):
a. The report of Dr. Peter Bryce, summer 1907, in which a constantly high death rate of between 30%-50% was found in most western residential schools because of a practice by staff of “deliberately infecting children with infectious diseases”. This death rate stayed constant for over 40 years (Globe and Mail, April 24, 2007).
b. Statistical Tables from the federal government reveal a net de-population of native people across Canada between 1904 and 1917 of nearly 25%, and again during the 1920’s. This decline was directly attributable to widespread and untreated tuberculosis.
c. Despite this huge mortality level in the residential schools, the federal government passed a law in 1920 requiring compulsory attendance in these schools by every native child, on pain of imprisonment and fining of their parents.
d. The same year (1919-1920), all medical inspection of these schools was abolished by a federal government order-in-council. Deaths of native students from tuberculosis rose dramatically immediately following this abolition of medical inspection.
e. During the subsequent decade (1920-30), natives were stripped of their legal rights and power to hire a lawyer (1927), formal legal guardianship of native children was transferred from the federal government to residential school Principals, i.e., the churches (1929), and involuntary sterilization laws were implemented by which any native child in these schools could legally be made infertile (1929-1933).
f. One third to one half of residential school students continued to die on average for nearly fifty years (1900-1950), despite repeated studies and warnings to the churches and federal government.
g. The policy of the federal government was not to hospitalize Indians and Inuit people suffering and dying from tuberculosis. (Globe and Mail, May 29, 1953)
h. Numerous accounts exist of native children sick with tuberculosis being admitted en masse into residential schools and deliberately housed with the healthy, causing subsequent deaths. No segregation of sick and healthy was practiced.
i. Native children consistently died at a much higher rate within residential schools than outside them, because of conditions within the schools that "weakened ... their constitution". Despite knowing this, government officials took no action. (Letter of M. McKay to D.C. Scott, April 1910)
j. Native children infected with smallpox and tuberculosis were deliberately sent back to their homes and into native villages by residential school staff and doctors (e.g., Mission Catholic school, 1923).
k. Two distinct standards of health and medical care were practiced by government and church doctors at the residential schools, along clear racial lines. Native children received a consistently lower standard of attention and treatment (e.g., letter of Dr. F. Pitts, Lejac school, 1934).
l. Government officials, including the heads of Indian Affairs, authorized these practices through a policy that legitimated lack of care and widespread deaths on the grounds that “a high death rate from tuberculosis and other diseases is to be expected … among Indian children” (DIA Superintendent D.C. Scott, 1918).
m. Extensive residential school records were deliberately destroyed by federal government “document destruction teams” throughout the 1950’s and ‘60’s across Canada (Ottawa Sun, May, 2007). Government and church officials suppressed evidence of deaths and other crimes in residential schools consistently for nearly a century, and as recently as the 1960’s. (Province, October, 1998)
n. http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org
o. For more information, contact Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared-Toronto at FRDToronto@yahoo.ca .
Source:
Documents from the RG 10 series on Indian Residential Schools, federal Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa, (Vols. R 7733), reproduced in Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust (2005, 2nd ed.) by K. Annett
At one time I didn't understand I really didn't have to be at the St Eugene's Residential School, in Cranbrook BC it was to the benefit to the ones who ran the schools that they continuly failed number of native students, so they can continue to operate these schools! that was a standard, less known. this was also used to control the population of the peoples! keeping them seperated, causing each to torment each others relative, pitting shame against educational know how! using our educated individuals against the cultural understanding of the known elders of the day! Remember what happened? The ones who had grade 12, ended up being the chief! and once they understood what is what? they used they're educated knowledge to enforce the indian act process and believing they're doing good! today, everyone knows the facts, strength in understanding who u r! that is the platform of each national leveage! not knowing your identity, scares only you! fear reigns no more, change in in the spirit of the youth! the few seeds of knowledge has taken root and the growth begins! Welcome to the New People of your Nations! A New Morning, our youth chasing the real rainbow! Now it's up to only you,....and you know it! enjoy.
this invite is to to help get people to sign the petition that we are giving to obama when the journey for forgiveness ends in Washington DC.
this journey is to bring an awareness of the traumas that happened to the elders at boarding schools
the petition site is
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1...
please make sure to click through both pages to get your name on it this is a historical time, please help out by signing
please sign this petition, click sign on both pages to get your name on it
hope that everyone is thinking about the journey for forgiveness that kicks off next saturday May 16th at Chemawa Indian School down in Oregon. I will be there, check the www.whitebison.org link for the journey to see if it is going to be anywhere where you live to see if you can come show support and take part in the healing for our elders and ancestors forced to go through the horrible experiences and treatments that usually accompanied these schools
Thanks for this cause... I spent seven years in Indian Day School on the Gesgapegiag First Nation reserve when I was little from Grade one to Grade seven. Then I spent two years at Saint Anne Boarding School in Listuguj, Quebec. I was born and raised on the Gesgapegiag reserve. Although the nuns and priest would beat us, and worse sometimes, the nuns also gave us powered milk and vitamin crackers in the morning cause many parents on our reserve were so poor back then. Sometimes this was the only meal we had all morning... and the nuns also made home made taffy.
I have had the honor of learning about residential Shools as I workd on a project with in my own community called the healing Journey i'd like to post a clip but am not sure how to do so?! Any way the video was to raise awareness and something for the younger generation to look at and build questions from we made the video to peek curiostity, the video talks about inter-generational impact on my community Chippewas Of The Thames First Nation, it speaks of Christainty, Abuse, both physical, and sexual, but it also has some stories of people who are Christians and live by what they learned from thees boarding schools. The film was Made by Kem Murch Productions Inc. Sponsered by Chippewa Nation.
The boarding school issue needs to be addressed because it is affecting generations of Native Americans. When the ones who were involved in the events pass away, the dysfunction, the low self image, etc. all passed on to the offspring. Healing can happen by counseling, celebrating the Native culture, and helping them to integrate that part of their heritage back into everyday living. There is someone with a vision of how to do this and I pray that they arise soon and lead the way.
check out the following website to see if the white bison workshops for boarding school traumas is anywhere near you
http://www.historicaltrauma.com/...
Greetings! Many of you may already be aware of the 2009 Wellbriety Journey
for Forgiveness that will begin May 16, 2009 in Salem, OR. In conjunction
with the 2009 Wellbriety Journey for Forgiveness, White Bison is offering
one day workshops on the topic of Historical & Boarding School Trauma.
These workshops will provide insight into what Historical Trauma is and ways
to deal with it at an individual, family and community level.
My mom went to boarding school as well as all my aunts and uncles. I am very interested in this project. And hope to learn more.
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In Lummi we created the Lummi Youth Academy to begin a solution to the Historical Trauma created. We thought it was a little ironic we would decide to start the healing from where it orginated? Interesting isn't it???? We must think about how to heal. We are no longer Victimes!