- Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes by the RCMP.
- 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families.
- 90 to 100% suffered SEVERE physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. (you were beaten if caught speaking your native language, and you got a new colonizer name you had to go by).
- There was a 40 – 60% mortality rate in Indian residential schools. (either from malnutrition, trying to escape, freezing to death, fire, ect).
-Over 130 residential schools were located across Canada, and the last school closed as recently as 1996. (The last school closed around the time my brother was born). [some friends from college were involved with a settlement from attending a residential school].
Kids were also sold as sex slaves by priests and other staff, some kids were taken to remote locations, tied up, starved, and sold for sex.
At most schools, the staff would eat delicious meals, and "Bands were fed diseased and discarded meat; inferior and contaminated flour to cut expenses and maximize profit; students were fed scraps and “porridge with worms”.
and don't forget about our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Highway of Tears! #MMIWG#highwayoftears
Where I live, most people call it SasKKKchewan because of how racist people still are.
[If you care to look it up, about 90 per cent of kids in foster care are Indigenous, and they get murdered by their foster parents or while in care, and nothing is even done by police, and no one gets held accountable].
Thank you for talking about this! Very ugly history that Canada tries to hide. Needs to be talked about sooo much more and for work be done to give them value and justice and more.
