Tag: genocide
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Canada’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission
[This article was first published by The Silo on April 22, 2014] On June 10, 2009, the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Marie Wilson and Chief Wilton Littlechild were appointed as Commissioners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), a component of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is…
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Are More Native Children In Gov’t Care Today Than At Height Of Residential Schools?
Truth and Reconciliation Report – One Oneida Woman’s Perspective Indian Residential Schools are a large part of Canadian History. I use the present tense. Every Canadian lives with the fallout of these schools which were to, “Kill the Indian in the Child.” Cultural Genocide the TRC [Truth and Reconciliation Commission CP] says in its opening paragraph.…