CountDC
Army.ca Veteran
- Reaction score
- 444
- Points
- 960
Even the press will sometimes refer to mass unmarked graves which always annoys me. A mass grave is not a site where slightly over 100 people have been buried over a century.
Don't recall where (thinking the prairie's) a group was trying to make hay of this matter while the former chief spoke up stating they always new about the graves and that they use to have wooden crosses. It is an estimate that approx 150k children attended the school and as many as 6K died. Even the TRC lists approx 2K as not returned home, 1242 died and an other 477 needed more research.
It's also false that all the kids were grabbed and forced to the school by the government, residential schools were not mandatory until 1920. Sometimes it was the parents that forced the kids to go to school hoping for a better life for them. Some schools were at the reservation and the students went home at the end of the day just like public schools now.
There was abusive staff and some schools were worse than others. There was ignoring of the inspector that reported several times that the school system needed work and proper over sight. I also absolutely belief that there were some murders due to excessive abuse.
I find it horrible that the man that is mainly blamed for the Residential Schools had nothing to do with them, he was dead when they started. He was an honourary member of the tribe he was trying to help, best friends with the chief and together they had tried to start a school system on the reservation that included teaching the tribe members modern farming skills.
Don't recall where (thinking the prairie's) a group was trying to make hay of this matter while the former chief spoke up stating they always new about the graves and that they use to have wooden crosses. It is an estimate that approx 150k children attended the school and as many as 6K died. Even the TRC lists approx 2K as not returned home, 1242 died and an other 477 needed more research.
It's also false that all the kids were grabbed and forced to the school by the government, residential schools were not mandatory until 1920. Sometimes it was the parents that forced the kids to go to school hoping for a better life for them. Some schools were at the reservation and the students went home at the end of the day just like public schools now.
There was abusive staff and some schools were worse than others. There was ignoring of the inspector that reported several times that the school system needed work and proper over sight. I also absolutely belief that there were some murders due to excessive abuse.
I find it horrible that the man that is mainly blamed for the Residential Schools had nothing to do with them, he was dead when they started. He was an honourary member of the tribe he was trying to help, best friends with the chief and together they had tried to start a school system on the reservation that included teaching the tribe members modern farming skills.