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Jun 7, 2021 11:25 AM
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BobCaygeon
When I mentioned to my daughter that we were never taught this in school in the 70s, she said neither was she and she graduated in 2011
GrassssssssTastesBad
There can't be peace unless there is justice and every residential school site is investigated for bodies
jimmyhowlett
The government refused to publish his work so he did it himself so ensure the truth was out there
jimmyhowlett
/a/DOwmYyZ
JillOfTheJpg
Rename Ryerson U after this guy.
Deadpoolisfunny
And not just more if him. More people who are willing to stand up and support guys like him. We can't leave change up to one person.
Deadpoolisfunny
We all need to fight for it.
ssurfcity
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/9/E223
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
I think I found a copy on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/storyofnationalc00brycuoft/page/18/mode/2up
ChupaChena
. Thanks
CalmgotheWildseas
This shows you bad things are not normalized because they are history! People spoke up against these atrocities-as we should today.
bjornSleepJumper
Sue the church into bankruptcy. The are evil fucks
sowhat4
And we've come so far with our treatment of Dr. Fauci, right? /s
DarseZ
This is who needs to be on the $20 bill.
harrison100012
Shit still going on
awesomecat42
More people like him would be nice, but useless without more people who listen to people like him.
MagpieChristine
The government's response to him calling out the high death rate was to stop keeping records of deaths at residential schools.
Baeloro
But when I post my thoughts on social media I get told to eat leases paint...
Homietwelve
Maybe this is the guy who's name should replace Ryerson.
Munchman347
And, they have a statue honoring the prick who set up the 'schools', but not this man...
ILikedTheirOldStuffBetter
That mustache would make even Wolford Brimley blush like a schoolgirl.
serious0
Thank goodness someone said it! He would not have wanted to be remembered without mention of that magnificent lip sculpture.
evangrumling5
What’s really scary is that was in 1904
TheobromineAddict
Canada withdrew financial support of Netflix show Anne with an E, after that show started a subplot critical of residential schools.
DarkSock
That epic ‘stache tho…
SephReed
People who speak reason in the face of irrationality are still all over. And they're still ignored.
desmoquattro
It is our national shame, and there are conservatives in our government who try to white wash or excuse our treatment of the indigenous.
desmoquattro
I'm a proud Canadian and I'm constantly ashamed of our ongoing treatment of these people. And I once participated in the racism.
desmoquattro
It is so normalized that I simply didn't think I was racist to think they were inferior. It took me a long time to realize how wrong I was.
Punk1209
Good on ya brother. That's what we need more of. +1
spinbutton3
Let's start a new era, where we look out for each other and the planet and call out the people who don't
witalaska4
Who the fuck was prime minister of Canada at the time of the massacred native kids?
Eridianne
I mean, my boy, who the fuck wasn't? Our last residential school closed in fuckin 96
OldsterBabe
Irrelevant. They either all participated, sanctioned or covered it up. They are all equally responsible. As is the Catholic Church.
Descripts
Kevin Annett 2006 showed it persisted into the 1960 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGEK8duSiU
MurialsCourage
Boy Canada's reputation has taken a hit this past year.
Lanhdanan
Thankfully we're not so blindly patriotic that we can't judge ourselves But as yet still not harsh enough as Native racism is still too high
DespiseEveryone
Canada never had a good reputation, only ignorant imgur thought they were nice. Normal people know about their atrocities.
DarseZ
Canada's a great country with some big problems to work on with regards to past actions, for sure.
circlebreaker
A lot of people have known for a long, long, long time. I was hearing about this when I was a kid, from people who had seen the 1/
circlebreaker
authorities first-hand, hauling the runaways back to the schools. The fact is, that people at the time either approved wholeheartedly, or 2/
circlebreaker
saw it as a kind of necessary evil (maintain social cohesion or something IDK, not a sociologist). General thinking/societal mores about 3/
circlebreaker
these kinds of things weren't even in the same ballpark as modern practice, similar things were done to unmarried pregnant women, the 4/
circlebreaker
intellectually disabled, and people with serious mental illness. It's makes for difficult reading learning about it all, ugly as Hell... 5/5
vpi77
As a Canadian, it should have a long time ago. This is nothing new.
AmandaDunne
As it should. There is a lot of damage that has been ignored and dismissed. About time we take accountability for it.
rosebudthesled
Why did you think we were always saying sorry?
Eolande2006
As it should. As a Canadian, we need to be open about the atrocities in our history and our current issues.
TheFeigningNinja
I just don’t understand why its blown up so massively this year. I was taught about residential schools since middle school.
end100
IIRC it was like half a section, more of an token gesture in one grade
TheFeigningNinja
I don't know how it was in other provinces/cities, every grade since grade 7 we would dedicate a portion of the year to residential schools.
Eolande2006
Not the norm. We superficially covered it one year in school. No orange shirt day or treaty land recognition. I didn’t get truly 1/2
TheFeigningNinja
Especially during Orange Shirt Day, which occured every year. We would also be reminded that our city/school were built on Treaty land,
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Because. this. year. they. discovered. 215. dead. children.
TheFeigningNinja
I was already taught the massive death toll of the Residential Schools, another 215 dead children shouldn't be a shock, rather,
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
You don't find 215 dead children "a shock"?? Previously there were mostly anecdotal reports, not a fucking mass grave. >2
TheFeigningNinja
A cruel reminder of our past, nothing else. Hate to make the comparison, but it'd be like if they found a mass grave dating back to the
peterbozeman
We need more people like Peter Bryce who can grow a mustache that can stop a bullet.
nottedy
You could sweep up a wood-shop floor with that bad boy
xyxyxyxy31
LooseyGooseyBrett
It sucks when people like him leave the positions of power like this. It leaves only the evil ones behind
KarlderMarder
I won't call em evil - evil suggest a minimum of intellicgence
KarlderMarder
it leaves the ignorant
theshinobi23
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but if you think they don't know exactly what they're doing, you're the ignorant one.
KarlderMarder
Yea, I know... but not all of them... at least
theshinobi23
The new faces might be ignorant, but I'm certain that any who have been in office more than one term have been filled in by their colleagues
Enginerrrrrrrrr
And if they make it so he can't change anything he becomes culpable. Soooo
famousfornow
Damned if you do damned if you don’t.
ICampOntheFirstDate
Some people rise through the ranks by being good at their job, others rise by pushing the good ones down.
Awmph
Some hills are strategic hills worth defending at all costs. Some hills are not. Walk the hill in someone else's shoes to tell them apart.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
If you stay, you become complicit
zfournier16
The evil ones are good at silencing anyone like him they will even start befor you have a voice
TheAssholeRacist
Lanhdanan
Sounds like he was forced out, didn't leave on his own accord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bryce
Lanhdanan
"He appealed his forced retirement from the Civil Service in 1921 and was denied."
FreeNorth
This is exactly why Dr Fauci did not resign, under tremendous pressure from the army of Orcs and Fat Sauron.
kojenk
Fauci still had the power to make a difference. Dude above did not.
Niddhoger
This was a constant struggle during the Trump years: stay and do what good you can, but risk supporting other evils or fuck off in protest->
Niddhoger
holding up your head with a clean conscious... except for the shit licking stooge replacement you know will do far worse.
ath1337e
Yeah, the whole "I'm resigning because it's too corrupt here" trend is stupid. Well now it's going to go from 90% corrupt to 100%. Thanks.
morelikeconsham
Depending on the scenario, sometimes it's just plain not your responsibility. If given the opportunity, I'd leave the US because I don't
morelikeconsham
think it's worth fixing. I don't feel bad because it's not my problem.
uououououo
Okay but this wasn't a matter of corruption. This was national policy. The cruelty was the desired status quo.
kojenk
its more moronic if you stick around, that means you are an accessory
AnimusRex
If something is 90% corrupt, you're not getting 10% done, you're getting nothing done.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Exactly
TiredOldBroad
This is true. Sometimes, though, they’ll make your life so hard that you don’t have a choice. I’m glad he wrote a book about it.
goouch
not much to do about it, like swimming against the torrent, he can resign out of integrity and cos of toxic work enviroment
Insomnia297
reminds me of the previous administration.
Kailhun
What was it about Canada that made them do this? What was the error in their psyche as a people, as a nation?
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Just normal human stuff, unfortunately. This kind of thing has happened in pretty much every country, at some point.
Lashiel87
Same error that the US has, or Australia, or the Dutch...
kmikl
Or NZ, Spain, Mongols... native inhabitants are usually not tread upon lightly by imperialists, colonialists or invaders.
TheflyPrince
Big time the church. Look up "butterbox babies", Nova Scotia has especially fucked up history.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Some individuals meant well but were mistaken. Some were sadistic and evil. Most just assumed that being "less Indian" was a better life.
neckingduringschindlerslist
They were floored that the “Indians weren’t grateful”.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
To be fair, some First Nations leaders were onside with this "progressive" approach too. History can be complex; time gives perspective. >2
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
>2 But the worst abuses of these schools and other colonialist initiatives were obvious at the time, to those who cared to look.
neckingduringschindlerslist
It’s barely even history. Last school closed in 90s and the generational trauma is real.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
The Gov't wanted assimilation. It appears the catholics wanted kids to fuck (as per usual) The Gov't pretended not to notice.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
Paternalism taken to extremes
Causeitsmadeofmeat
Sorry I misspelled to save their souls
kmikl
*pounds a shot* okay, you wanna know what the problem was? I'll tell you straight up: Imperialist bullshit. Canada was founded under French
kmikl
then British imperialism. The Brits teleported the French Acadiens down to Louisiana (you call the Cajuns now, and it's not a slur), but
kmikl
They had to deal with the native population. Now look at Sir John A. MacDonald, first Prime Minister, good protestant fellow and deeply
kmikl
Racist (go ahead and DV, it's the unpretty truth) needed to increase the working population but not have them encroach on white people's
kmikl
Money or anything important like industry. They saw Aboriginals as sub-human, and like all industrious neo-conquistadors, he set about
EndOfMeaning
Organised religion. It's nothing but pure evil.
RykeJK
Tried to assimilate them into the general culture to make Canada one people. China and France currently trying the same thing.
thevortexmaster
It was was the catholic church that committed the atrocities, the government that sanctioned them and the RCMP to take the kids
EmanNiemThcin
"It's all the catholics!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system#Anglican,_Presbyterian_and_United_Churches
thevortexmaster
Oh I know. My immediate family is Tlingit and they had relatives in the schools
kmikl
The government enabled this: the policy was put in place in 1880. That's what mechanized what the catholic and protestant groups had been
end100
and it didn't completely end until 1996, the kamloops school closed in 1969
kmikl
doing in dribs and drabs for decades in the eastern provinces and spread it across the country.
jimmyhowlett
It wasn't an error in the psyche of the people. Most people had no idea what was happening and the rest didn't believe it. Small group in 1/
jimmyhowlett
Power fucked up generations of indigenous Peoples. 2/2
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
British imperialism: a mix of greed and racism that said anything that would benefit Queen and Country was justifiable, no matter the means.
BootsDusty
SaraSlaughter
#1 OK I almost got sick reading that..... thats fucking horrific. Fuck the Catholic Church.
harrison100012
Oh fuck this makes me want to kill those Bastards slowly .Hell must be full of those cunts
DarralHunter
This was common here in the UK too. My grandmother worked in a boys home in the 40’s. I have heard countless stories from survivors who...
DarralHunter
Sing her praise for stopping the priests and sisters abusing them. Even taking physical beatings herself to stop the boys for being targeted
DustyLightning
Silent night for the rest of your life, "forgive me father" won't make it right.
PosthumousExile
I did the same for my siblings, but my dad just made sure that my mom kept me away when he came for my sister
SaraSlaughter
??? WTF
DeanGulberri1
bigrubbermonkey
This hurts my heart.
N0S4A2
FoxySpirit
When twisted deeds go unpunished, people become worse and worse. Until they are monsters.
Raspberrywaffles
Ok I’ve always lived in Canada and this whole thing has Been extremely distributing to read and hear about,
m4uboy
word IS getting around...
LuminoZero
As an American, I know we have no room to talk, but what the FUCK Canada?
rainbowsandunicorns575
It would seem that all white colonialists are fuck heads... Canada. The US, Mexico, Palestine, Algeria, many countries in Africa, India...
8hourgamer
It goes back hundreds of years. It's not like France was gifted the land they then sold in the Louisiana purchase.
7hatsBollocks
Don't worry we had these "schools" too. Besides, Canadians are polite, but that in no way means nice.
densistemurikanen
Sweden here, don't know if the abuse was as bad but we had assimilation schools here too
densistemurikanen
We still have segregated schools for our native population now they I think about it but now they're run by the native gov division
Circosys
Wait a second, "Native population"? Ignorant American here, but what? Excuse me while I go dive into this.
end100
as a Canadian I have to agree WTF Canada
Velv3tThunder
They should be digging up the bodies of mysteriously murdered priests, not children.
popebadass
Raspberrywaffles