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Warpy

(111,253 posts)
28. They weren't the only ones
Sat May 29, 2021, 11:26 AM
May 2021

I think you'll find the same story at most of them, kids crowded together, far from home, language barrier, and epidemics of diseases to which Indian children had no resistance. Oh, the schools had a loftier purpose, to educate them for a better life than sitting in tents or other "primitive" housing in the mud, plus the darker purpose of educating the Indian out of them, but until vaccinations came out, the overcrowding did the job that the wars hadn't.

The hard part of this one is that likely families weren't notified. If they had been, they'd have wanted to bury their own children, but people of such lofty purposes never consider the human feelings of their human projects.
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And the three year old. Who snatches three year olds to put them into boarding school? Must've been a bounty offered to heartless bastards.

A school operated by the Catholic Church Mysterian May 2021 #1
This does remind me of that Irish home for unwed womens story Demovictory9 May 2021 #2
The Magdelene Laundries COL Mustard May 2021 #13
Yep Demovictory9 May 2021 #45
Just taking the kids from their lands and families and teaching them to be white is and was torture. Botany May 2021 #3
Why are they always part of these horrible incidents? AllyCat May 2021 #7
Definitely yes. Mr. Steve May 2021 #8
The story immediately reminded me of the Mount Cashel Orphanage in N & L. Pacifist Patriot May 2021 #11
They weren't the only ones Warpy May 2021 #28
Different churches and government organizations were involved. shrike3 May 2021 #30
Yes, for most of its years. But the Fed govt took it over in the late 60's till it shut down pnwmom May 2021 #38
Just another crime committed by the Catholic church. BlueWavePsych May 2021 #43
The catholic church is NOT weissmam May 2021 #46
Heartbreaking. ratchiweenie May 2021 #4
It's not just the stupid church, our whole country started this way. knightmaar May 2021 #5
Reading that made me sick to my stomach. Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #6
Me too. llmart May 2021 #25
Yes, it was official Canadian policy shrike3 May 2021 #29
Wasn't there a similar philosophy and practice in Australia, with aboriginal children? nt pnwmom May 2021 #39
Oh yes indeed it was. uriel1972 May 2021 #47
... Faux pas May 2021 #9
Canada has its own reparations to make. Sick as our history, or England, or France, or..... Evolve Dammit May 2021 #10
Yes. narnian60 May 2021 #12
Canada has created a truth and reconciliation commission to expose what happened Fiendish Thingy May 2021 #22
Good on them for doing it. shrike3 May 2021 #32
That is what is needed. It is the only way to acknowledge the truth and make amends. Evolve Dammit May 2021 #41
So tragic and chilling PatSeg May 2021 #14
Colson Whitehead - the novelist of the Underground Railroad Mira May 2021 #15
Spot on about the building. It screams museum. mjvpi May 2021 #24
I think it has for a while been incorporated into a tribe's land and is a park w limited access Bernardo de La Paz May 2021 #51
I wonder how they explained the disappearance to parents. JohnnyRingo May 2021 #16
They came from reservations across western Canada OnlinePoker May 2021 #17
The children were essentially kidnapped greenjar_01 May 2021 #21
The parents definitely were not "sending" their kids to this institution. The state kidnapped the WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #36
This story reminds me of an old, great film called Rabbit Proof Fence. Lonestarblue May 2021 #18
I'm glad you brought that movie up pandr32 May 2021 #34
It's genocide Andy Canuck May 2021 #19
There is so much more history for the Texas legislature to edit. mjvpi May 2021 #27
Human trafficking, slavery, and child murder to please someone's money-grubbing jealous deity Aldemelod May 2021 #20
Terrific post. llmart May 2021 #26
Assimilate or die Bayard May 2021 #23
You are correct, and because of jurisdiction bullshit, the bastards usually get away with it. Jay25 May 2021 #31
The Nat'l media needs to cover this far more than they do! Duppers May 2021 #44
KnR Hekate May 2021 #33
Settler colonialism is genocide. WhiskeyGrinder May 2021 #35
Sadly, that's what most settlers have done to native populations when the came in uninvited AZLD4Candidate May 2021 #40
breaks my heart llashram May 2021 #37
I'm just sickened to learn such history! Backseat Driver May 2021 #42
Are any autopsies being done? Did these kids die from some sudden epidemic? JustABozoOnThisBus May 2021 #48
It happened over many decades, but probably more in the early years Bernardo de La Paz May 2021 #49
Today: FLAGS will be half-mast for 215 hours, that's about 9 days Bernardo de La Paz May 2021 #50
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