Mass Murder in Canada

Submitted by Anthony V on November 12, 2007 - 12:32pm.

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A Century after its Reporting, Mass Murder in Canada
is Still Denied

On November 15, 1907, The Ottawa Citizen reported that over half the children in Indian Residential Schools across Canada were dying from uncontrolled disease (See the attached article). Yet one hundred years later, there has still been no official acknowledgement of this genocidal mortality, nor have the churches and persons responsible for these deaths been brought to justice.

The source of this report in the Citizen, Dr. Peter Bryce of Indian Affairs, claimed in a separate report that this consistently high death rate was caused by the deliberate spreading of disease in residential schools by staff members.

This Thursday, November 15, on the one hundredth anniversary of the publishing of residential school death rates in The Ottawa Citizen, we call on all citizens to protest the continued suppression of the truth of this crime against humanity by the government and churches responsible for it, and to force the truth from them.

We especially condemn the recent attempted concealment of residential school records by the United Church of Canada, and demand that this church, and the Catholics and Anglicans, be compelled by court orders to disclose and release the buried remains of all children who died under their care in Indian residential schools.

Until full disclosure is made, and those responsible for so many deaths are brought to justice, we call on all Canadians to actively boycott the government and churches of Canada by denying them all funding and allegiance, and to actively disrupt their operations.

We also issue a call to the world community to boycott all Canadian goods, trade and tourism, and to refuse to attend the 2010 Olympics.

We remember the Thousands of Disappeared Children.

Issued by The Elders,
The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
Chief Louis Daniels, Patron

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Just finished watching the

Submitted by Thomas Czermak on November 28, 2007 - 2:25pm.

Just finished watching the documentary that Amelia was kind enough to lend me. The evidence is very compelling. Of course, it doesn't take much to convince me that a Canadian genocide did occur. It happened across the rest of this continent by the hands of the Spanish and Americans (mostly ex-English). Colonization is always an aggressive occupation of a society, and those pictures in elementary school textbooks, of settlers and native people living in harmony, don't help portray this horrible truth.

Kevin Annett Interview

Submitted by Anthony V on November 17, 2007 - 2:50pm.

The November 20th London Indymedia Radio show is an insightful interview with Kevin Annett on the Truth Commission and the story of residential schools and genocide in Canada.

That's this Tuesday at 6pm and again the next morning at 6:30am on CHRW 94.9 FM.

Our archived shows are at:

http://chrwradio.com/talk/indymedia/

Canadian Residential Schools

Submitted by Anthony V on November 16, 2007 - 10:39am.

From "Canadian Residential Schools" by Alroy Fonseca

Dr. Peter H. Bryce, chief medical officer of the Canadian Indian department (of the early 20th century), warned his superiors of the staggering toll the residential school system was taking on aboriginal populations in Manitoba and the Northwest. Dr. Bryce's report, completed after he visited 15 schools, was quoted in an article on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen, the Canadian capital's major daily, exactly one hundred years ago today, on 15 November 1907. With this article's publication, it thus became public knowledge that a generation of aboriginals within Canada was dying at a staggering rate – a rate that some would later call genocidal.

The Ottawa Citizen article gained new currency due to the efforts of Kevin Annett, a former United Church minister who was fired from his job at about the same time as when he began digging into the Church's troubled history with the Canadian residential school system.

Following his reporting on the dangerous situation faced by aboriginal children in residential schools, Dr. Bryce was removed from his position in the Indian department. Much later, in 1922, he published a short book, entitled The Story of a National Crime, in which he lambasted the Indian department for not responding to his concerns. Unfortunately, this work is little known in the mainstream and rarely, if ever, mentioned in official school curricula, despite its obvious significance.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=14280

Film

Submitted by Jon Bullick (not verified) on November 17, 2007 - 1:57am.

I cant stress enough about how important kevins film is.

most important story in canadian history

Submitted by amelia d on November 12, 2007 - 6:47pm.

Thanks for posting this Anthony. Some Londoners were fortunate recently to meet Kevin Annett at a screening of his doumentary film at fanshawe college. Kevin has spent the past decade of his life documenting the Canadian genocide of First Nations peoples in residential schools. This could be the most important story in Canadian History so I urege evryone to learn about this. Being generally aware of First nations issues even i was stunned to hear that the same routine practices used by Americans to eradicate Aboriginal groups (like small pox blankets) were happening in Catholic, Christian and United Church residential schools, along with the well-known practices such as everyother kind of abuse known to humankind. This is a painful and terrible story but the least we can do for our Aboriginal brothers and sisters is to come to acknowledge the truth of their experiences.

http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/