the question is what or how much do you need to make you happy?this is the true question.
Settlement for residential school survivors sought from federal government
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Trying to pay out compensation for this is a logistic nightmare it's absolutely ridiculous. I do not believe it's a wise strategy.
and don't forget "administered process's"may it be going through the courts allow new avenues of recognition which otherwise may not be attainable through other means,it is not about winning or losing,sometimes and i stress sometimes it is about shaping Constitutional boundries,laws and foundations.other formal avenues were not successfull,willfull blindness can be rampant.
the monetary thing is secondary.
Recognition is a huge thing when going through a process which we as Canadians are witnessing with the TRC,we as Canadians would not recognize the injustices to the victims of residential schools for a very long time.Along with the victims,their communities,families and our communities we have all paid the price of willfull blindness.As Canadians we buried our heads for such a long time ago,now "recognition"is part of the administered process.
and really who cannot look at those numbers,being projected,and not feel some form of empathy.
i did some information auditing and laisons with the aboriginal communities of Alberta,my findings once again went back to recipical agreements,are you interested in hearing about this audiiting assessment summary?
it really does not matter,nothing matters at Christmas,we are all happy and more happy during this joyous season.
once again Pedro was blowing his own horn,but the horn was sounding out of tune,i just wanted to point out this too him,
he sounded ridiculous.
you talk like that again,i will report you to the moderator.
yes i know you are shaking in your boots.keep it on the low bro!
are you his brother?can't pedro flirt with me,what is your big status?
know what is a logistic nightmare,the money which was paid out to everyone but the victims,those lawyers,i bet they sucked it up.
who do you want to hear it from?who would be your pick?I know,Senator Wallin?Am i correct.
pfft, that wasn't even that bad =)
I just wanted to stir a little emotional debate from grump.
Wallin? Oh you are hilarious. If I wanted info from an idiot, I'd listen to you.
that's o.k,i already knew and you did not hurt my feelings.
don't read any of my blogs.
I have no idea where to find your blogs. When I want a good laugh, I'll read your posts on here.
I'doubt read They Came for the Children, freely available online in PDF format and written by the TRC. It provides a wealth of factual information and while it acknowledges good teachers and students who did gave a good experience, they were in the minority. The schools were underfunded, children malnourished, children often cleaned and fixed the schools and grew their own food due to budget constraints. Teachers were rarely qualified. The Government was aware of the high death rates but saw it as a small price to pay for assimilation. Children were literally beaten for speaking their languages. In one anecdotal case in that book (and I'd read another in a separate book), an Inuit parent had complained in a letter written in Inuktitut to the school that she could not communicate with her daughter and that the school should teach her daughter Inuktitut. The school headmaster had responded in a letter translated into Inuktitut that the mother should learn English instead. And this was in the later stages after the 1960's when the Government had taken over the schools which was also during the 'better' period of the system. By then though some children enjoyed residential school as an escape from PTSD-ridden broken homes filled with alcoholism and abuse given the generations. At Keats the first victims in the 1800's were going back to healthy homes. By the later period, parents and great grandparents had suffered the system themselves, so no respite.
Some of the Disappeared of Canada | Welcome to ITCCS.ORG and The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State
Sandy Mitchell, age 10, died after receiving experimental drugs from German speaking doctors at the Kuper Island catholic school, January 1939. Buried secretly in the Coqualeetza hospital graveyard, Sardis.
Fifteen Mohawk boys and girls shot to death by Canadian soldiers near the Anglican Indian school, Brantford, Ontario, summer of 1943. Buried in a mass grave at the nearby Glebe park.
Over 60,000 other children between the age of four and sixteen, cause of deaths unknown and unrecorded, who died in the Indian residential schools under the legal guardianship of the Catholic, Anglican and United Church between the years 1889 and 1996. Buried in at least 28 mass grave sites across Canada, or burned into ashes and scattered.
Johnny Bingo Dawson, age 53, residential school survivor and leader of Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD), died of a brutal beating by three Vancouver policemen, December 6, 2009. Cause of death falsified. Burial site unknown.
Ricky Lavallee, age 47, residential school survivor and leader of
the FRD, and an eyewitness to the beating death of Bingo Dawson, died of a blow to the chest by an unknown assailant, January 3, 2012.
William Arnold Combes, age 56, residential school survivor, FRD leader, and eyewitness to the abduction and disappearance of ten children by Queen Elizabeth in 1964, died after lethal injection and premature separation from his life support, St. Paul’s catholic hospital Vancouver on February 26, 2011. Burial site unknown.
Harry Wilson, age 53, residential school survivor and first eyewitness to finding a dead body at the Alberni school, died of the effects of blows to the head and chest, March 3, 2012, Vancouver. Burial site unknown.
Sandy Mitchell, age 10, died after receiving experimental drugs from German speaking doctors at the Kuper Island catholic school, January 1939. Buried secretly in the Coqualeetza hospital graveyard, Sardis.
Fifteen Mohawk boys and girls shot to death by Canadian soldiers near the Anglican Indian school, Brantford, Ontario, summer of 1943. Buried in a mass grave at the nearby Glebe park.
Over 60,000 other children between the age of four and sixteen, cause of deaths unknown and unrecorded, who died in the Indian residential schools under the legal guardianship of the Catholic, Anglican and United Church between the years 1889 and 1996. Buried in at least 28 mass grave sites across Canada, or burned into ashes and scattered.
Johnny Bingo Dawson, age 53, residential school survivor and leader of Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD), died of a brutal beating by three Vancouver policemen, December 6, 2009. Cause of death falsified. Burial site unknown.
Ricky Lavallee, age 47, residential school survivor and leader of
the FRD, and an eyewitness to the beating death of Bingo Dawson, died of a blow to the chest by an unknown assailant, January 3, 2012.
William Arnold Combes, age 56, residential school survivor, FRD leader, and eyewitness to the abduction and disappearance of ten children by Queen Elizabeth in 1964, died after lethal injection and premature separation from his life support, St. Paul’s catholic hospital Vancouver on February 26, 2011. Burial site unknown.
Harry Wilson, age 53, residential school survivor and first eyewitness to finding a dead body at the Alberni school, died of the effects of blows to the head and chest, March 3, 2012, Vancouver. Burial site unknown.