Tag: genocide

  • Canada’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission

    Canada’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission

    [This article was first published by The Silo on April 22, 2014] On June 10, 2009, the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Marie Wilson and Chief Wilton Littlechild were appointed as Commissioners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), a component of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is…

  • Are More Native Children In Gov’t Care Today Than At Height Of Residential Schools?

    Are More Native Children In Gov’t Care Today Than At Height Of Residential Schools?

    Truth and Reconciliation Report – One Oneida Woman’s Perspective Indian Residential Schools are a large part of Canadian History. I use the present tense. Every Canadian lives with the fallout of these schools which were to, “Kill the Indian in the Child.” Cultural Genocide the TRC [Truth and Reconciliation Commission CP] says in its opening paragraph.…