The 'two founding races', the 'four founding churches', and our place in Canada

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Source: forums.canadiancontent.net --- Friday, July 26, 2013
With the new revelations about more experiments at the residential schools recently, with continued underfunding of indigenous schools in Canada still today, essentially a continued attempt at the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, I was wondering, what is our place in Canada? I myself am a member of the so-called two founding races (French Canadian on my mother's side, English Canadian on my father's), and was raised in one of the 'four founding churches' (Catholic, the other three for those who aren't as familiar with the residential school system being the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches). Yet with all of this, I can't remember ever learning about the residential school system in school. I can't remember it ever even being mentioned the whole time I was raised Catholic. Why is that? Though I no longer profess the Christian Faith (actually, I never really did), I still respect the teachings of the Gospels. But where are these teachings practiced besides on an individual basis among individuals? Where is it being practiced in our institutions? Many indigenous peoples today are suffering from PTSD or intergenerational PTSD as a result of the residential school system, as witness alcohol and drug dependency, violence on reserves, high suicide rates, and the list goes on. Their population was purposely decimated and then much more than that over the centuries, and they continue to be marginalized. We have inherite ...

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