Indian Residential Schools: Acts of genocide, deceit and control by church and state
Indian Residential Schools: Acts of genocide, deceit and control by church and state
June 15, 2021
By Amelia McComber
Indigenous Theologian
By Cynthia Stirbys
Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Windsor
Tragically, the global community has learned that 215 Indigenous children never got the chance to return home from Kamloops Indian Residential School. And more recently, the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation identified 104 potential graves at the former Brandon Indian Residential School.
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Indigenous scholar and academic director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia, told NBC News: “Mass graves are a legacy of conflict and human rights violations in other parts of the world….”
The denial of genocide and crimes against humanity in Canada by the church and state can no longer be ignored.
These acts of genocide are the greatest affront to humanity.
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