I want everyone to watch this video by The Serfs titled “The HORRIFYING treatment of Indigenous Canadians (215 children found buried by Residential School)”
The problem Canada has is because the U.S and Canada are so tightly nit, the U.S media is a big distractor from it’s internal problems. It’s incredibly easy to see Canada as this great place full of “nice people”, and the conversation stops there, so we don’t learn about these kinds of things.
The reality is Canada has it’s fair share of horrors, particularly when it comes to its treatment of Indigenous people. This video heavily focuses on the residential school system, which didn’t completely end until 1996. The residential school system was the Canadian governments “solution” to the “Indian Problem”, where they would rip Indigenous kids away from their families and essentially torture them until they gave up their language, their culture, their names, etc, all to make them “more canadian” (i.e more white). The kids suffered psychological, sexual, and physical abuse. Thousands of kids died in these schools due to a number of reasons (suicide, killed by their teachers, malnutrition, etc), which were covered up and hidden from the families.
Today, Indigenous people are in many ways second class citizens in Canada. The reserves 40% of Indigenous people live in are maintained as ghettos, and the psychological trauma caused by both the PTSD from the residential schools and by the fact that their many different cultures were largely wiped out, leaves the communities rife with poverty, substance abuse, disproportionate criminality (and unfair treatment by the criminal justice system), and an easy target for sex traffickers.
People need to hear this. We have to talk about this more. No matter how much the Canadian government pretends to care about reconciliation as Justin Trudeau stands on stage wearing aboriginal garb, behind the curtain the government has fought with Indigenous activists tooth and nail in court to not give them anything. Spread the word. Speak up.
