National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

luvsdaty

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Saddest thing my mother told me about her residential school experience was listening to little children every night crying themselves to sleep for their mothers💔 she also told me about a little girl being beaten to death by a nun because she dropped her food tray in breakfast line up. It was cultural genocide
 

luvsdaty

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Arthur Henry Plint got sentenced to 11 years for raping little boys at the Port Alberni residential school. Everybody use to say he would give his victims Pep Chew chocolate to keep quiet about the rapes . My cousin said he can't eat oatmeal or mutton anymore because that's all they use to feed him when he went to Christie residential school in Tofino.
 
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luvsdaty

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Most of what I learned about residential school was through my uncles. To my parents,it was a taboo subject. There was so much guilt and shame felt by those who experienced the schools and looking back I guess my parents suffered ptsd from their experiences. I was lucky that I didn't go because my mom married my dad who wasn't catholic and back then ,that was a big no no I guess? Mind you going to public school in the early 70s as one of the only natives was pretty brutal, lots of bullying and racism and the teacher s would turn a blind eye.
 

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I remember in elementary school in the 1970s in the encyclopedia (Britannica I think), they had these plastic pages with the drawing of human respiratory system, nervous system, brain parts, and skeleton structures of the human body. These drawings I found out later were the direct result from Nazi Concentration Camp doctors who experimented on their prisoners.
This article is looking back at a situation through the eyes of today.
The problem was that the people (adults and children) that were affected, were isolated from mainstream society. Pushed off into camps or out into the wilderness, or locked behind closed doors, far from watchful eyes (mental institutions) of the public.
There are many things that divide humans beings, belief systems, culture, race, wealth and sex.
These things are all different.
Today we still have poor and rich, male and female and some extra sexual orientations. Religions are numerous, and there are numerous cultures even within your local neighbourhood. Racism still exists today and it will continue into the future.


The one thing that stands out for the past is the attitude that the authority was always right and the authority at times used violence to enforce its discipline. Prime example was the strap used in schools. Step outside the boundaries set and action/violence soon followed behind. I think that it was in the 90s that the bully issue were first being addressed in schools, but that same bullying still happens today.

The internet became widely available due to computers in the 90s. As the internet became faster and more capable, information was becoming more and more available. People could be more informed on events. Search engines became better. But that also can be misdirected.

For any event that happened in history, its just not 1 reason for why the event happened; there could be many reasons.

Truth and Reconciliation
Truth---- is a double edged sword, and from which side you look at the truth from. Look at the facts.
Reconciliation: I really hate this word, what is it trying to say? I think its very vague and misleading. LIke the double edged sword. Just google it. Is it seeking accomodation, appeasment, compromise, or understanding....

rec·on·cil·i·a·tion
(rĕk′ən-sĭl′ē-ā′shən)
n.
1. The act of reconciling.
2. The condition of being reconciled.
3. Reconciliation See penance.

reconciliation
1. The act of reconciling.
2. The condition of being reconciled.
3. Reconciliation See penance.

Reconciliation
(Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a sacrament in which repentant sinners are absolved and gain reconciliation with God and the Church, on condition of confession of their sins to a priest and of performing a penance
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
rec•on•cil•i•a•tion

n.
1. the act of reconciling or the state of being reconciled.
2. the process of making consistent or compatible.

reconciliation
noun
1. reunion, conciliation, rapprochement (French), appeasement, détente, pacification, propitiation, understanding, bringing back together, reconcilement The couple have separated but he wants a reconciliation.
reunion break-up, separation, falling-out, alienation, antagonism, estrangement
2. harmonizing, balancing, squaring, adjustment, synthesis, harmonization a reconciliation of the values of equality and liberty
3. accommodation, settlement, resolving, compromise, remedying, rectification the reconciliation of our differences


reconcile
(ˈrekənsail) verb
1. to cause (people) to become friendly again, eg after they have quarrelled. Why won't you be reconciled (with him)?reconciliar
2. to bring (two or more different aims, points of view etc) into agreement. The unions want high wages and the bosses want high profits – it's almost impossible to reconcile these two aims.conciliar
3. to (make someone) accept (a situation, fact etc) patiently. Her mother didn't want the marriage to take place but she is reconciled to it now.resignarse

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Reconcilation
 

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“Guardian of the Watchhouse” / Tsleil-Waututh warrior and land defender Will George (Swaysǝn) screams in frustration at the injustice committed against his people after Canada chose to proceed with the unethical construction of a dirty-oil pipeline set to tear straight through First Nations lands. We cannot hope to heal our planet until we make space for Indigenous communities to heal from a long and brutal history of trauma and ongoing persecution."

Photo and preface by Cristina Mittermeier

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I first saw this photo more than a year ago and as then, it brings up a rage inside me. Another example of the injustices and disregard of the first peoples of this land we live on.
 

80watts

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Just like the truck drive to Ottawa last winter, people are going to get fed up.
Shit happens, get over it.
With the supreame court in Canada on land claims for the Aboringinals, when one of them say "we are going to own it all" it kinda irks me... Sometimes I think they say that to "count cou". But you never know they could be serious or something....
 
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