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Hi all, As follow-up to this, see below for the full PDF reports from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, just released: http://www.deslibris.ca/en-US/Results.aspx?yearpub=2015&publisher=Truth+and+Reconciliation+Commission+of+Canada Let me know if the link doesn't work. Best, Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons) Website: http://www.craigbutosi.ca Library: library.craigbutosi.ca On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Report: Schools for Canada First Nations 'Cultural Genocide' > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJUNE 3, 2015, 1:01 A.M. E.D.T. > > TORONTO — Canada's decades-long government policy requiring Canadian First > Nation children to attend state-funded church schools amounted to "cultural > genocide," a long-awaited report has found. > > Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Justice Murray Sinclair said > Tuesday the residential schools represent one of the "darkest and most > troubling chapters in our collective history." > > The report is the result of a six-year study of Canada's former government > policy requiring Canadian aboriginals to attend the schools, often the > scenes of physical and sexual abuse. First Nation leaders have cited the > legacy of abuse and isolation as the root cause of epidemic substance abuse > on reservations. > > From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 aboriginal > children were required to attend Christian schools to rid them of their > native cultures and languages and integrate them into mainstream Canadian > society. > > More than 130 residential schools operated across Canada. > > The federal government previously admitted that physical and sexual abuse > in the once-mandatory schools was rampant and Prime Minister Stephen Harper > issued an historic apology in Parliament in 2008. Many students recall > being beaten for speaking their native languages and losing touch with > their parents and customs. > > The goal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was to give survivors > a forum to tell their stories and to educate Canadians about that dark > chapter in the country's history. > > Sinclair, a First Nations Canadian judge, described how the commission > heard from residential school survivors who were robbed of the love of > their families. > > "They were stripped of their self-respect and they were stripped of their > identity," Sinclair said. > > The commission was created as part of a US$5 billion class action > settlement in 2006 between the government, churches and the 90,000 > surviving First Nation students. > > Alma Scott was one of thousands of survivors in Canada who recounted her > experience to the commission. She described being taken to a school in Fort > Alexander, Manitoba, at the age of five. > > "I just remember feeling really sad, and I was in this truck full of other > kids who were crying, and so I cried with them," said Scott. > > Among the TRC report's 94 recommendations, it calls on the federal > government to launch a national inquiry into the number of missing and > murdered aboriginal women. It also seeks an apology from the Pope on behalf > of the Roman Catholic Church. And it recommends the government fully adopt > and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous > Peoples as the "framework for reconciliation." > > The TRC's summary also makes clear that the expectations of the aboriginal > community in the wake of Harper's apology for the residential school > tragedy in 2008 have not yet been met. > > Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Perry Bellegarde said the prime > minister's 2008 apology will be empty if it is not followed with action. > > Harper said he apologized for the devastation caused by the schools seven > years ago. He didn't call it a cultural genocide Tuesday or promise to > enact any of the report's 94 recommendations. > > Sinclair said he was scheduled to sit down with Harper later Tuesday. > > A center at the University of Manitoba will become the permanent home for > all statements, documents and materials gathered by the commission. It is > scheduled to open this summer. > > In Australia, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology in > Parliament in 2008 to the so-called Stolen Generations — thousands of > aboriginals who were forcibly taken from their families as children under > assimilation policies that lasted from 1910 to 1970. > > --- > > "The Circle Game": a review > > The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School > Experience in Canada > Roland Chrisjohn and Sherri Young, with Michael Maraun > Theytus Books Ltd., Penticton, BC, Canada; 1997 > ISBN 0-919441-85-8 > 327 pages, C$ 16.95 > > > Combining scholarly prowess and Swiftian irony, "The Circle Game" makes > the case that Canadian residential schools were not just an unfortunate > accident. Rather they were elements of a calculated policy of cultural and > physical genocide. To destroy the Indians as a people was a precondition to > gaining control of their land. > > Since the authors have solid academic credentials, they are in a position > to recognize and refute apologies for genocide sprouting from the academy > as well as the church. Roland Chrisjohn, a Haudenausaunee, received a > doctorate in Personality and Measurement from the University of Western > Ontario in 1981. Co-author Sherri Young and contributor Michael Maraun are > specialists in the fields of Applied Social Psychology and Statistics > respectively. Dispensing with the "value-free" stance found in academia, > the authors join a long tradition of advocacy made proud by scholars such > as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Ward Churchill. > > full: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/indian/chrisjohn.htm > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/cbutosi%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
