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TrudyML · Guru

October 1st!

Lindley · Guru

Morning 🌞, sitting at the airport waiting for our connecting flight ✈️ hope everyone has a great day

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Enjoy your time, LINDLEY, praying for ya'll.

Morning TRUDY.

Today is mom's birthday. Not sure what will take place.

I'll be glad to get the baby shower over with, my living room looks like a party supply store.

Happy Tuesday.

Momala · Great cook-happy wife-superb fisherman

Morning.
Yawn.
Streeeeetttccchhh.

What kind of mischief can
I get into today?

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Good morning, my pretties!

I rolled into my driveway around 4, yesterday afternoon.

I had a great visit with my mom, but it's nice to be home.

Have a safe trip, Lindley! I hope all goes well!

Tell your mom happy birthday for us, Lily.

Now, to finish unpacking and try to get back in the swing of things.

Yeehaw! wink

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

A city known for their venomous (more so than usual, I guess) Indian Residential Schools has done an honor ceremony. The Canadian estimates are that 150,000 children were kidnapped from their reserves and forced into these schools. Gatineau has researched and found only 2,500. There is a 1m video about halfway down. They have written the names of those who died on a red banner that they bring out and it is so powerful that it keeps coming and coming.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/remembering-children-who-died-at-residential-school-1.5302955?fbclid=IwAR1yUVrQ5QgZF6CcedacLn5YUo4RBoDwKBhErScRXS-I1iuOV_M6JKp0geE

-- Edited by Tignanello on Tuesday 1st of October 2019 11:57:19 AM

FNW · Guru

Had to attend a meeting this morning now home to telework. Thank goodness the FY is over and I can telework again.

karl271 · Guru

So the object of these residential schools was?? Get the "Indian" out of them and make them Canadians? Sounds like a really bad plan but there were a lot of bad plans in that time period. At any rate, feel sorry for them and their families.

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

karl271 wrote:
So the object of these residential schools was?? Get the "Indian" out of them and make them Canadians? Sounds like a really bad plan but there were a lot of bad plans in that time period. At any rate, feel sorry for them and their families.

Yes. It was for the Catholic church to save and assimilate the Heathens. Entire nations lost their history, their ability to form loving relationships with family and their own children, and even their language because they were beaten if they didn't speak english. Well, they were beaten for a lot of things. Not to mention other forms of 'punishment' by Priests and Nuns. It is a really shameful part of Canadian history. They would go as far as searching out villages and physically stealing the children. The schools ran from the early 1930s to the mid 1990s. Here is a good explanation of what the schools were.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schools-in-canada-1.702280

FNW · Guru

It wasn't just the Catholic Church, it was several various Christian denominations.

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

FNW wrote:
It wasn't just the Catholic Church, it was several various Christian denominations.

That's very true. Where I lived it was attached to the Catholic church, so my mind automatically goes there.

karl271 · Guru

To the mid 90s.. Unbelievable

Tignanello · My dog name is, Sasha!

There are some really good books on the history of the schools. Lots of memoirs as well. I try to read as many of them that I can, because I believe that stories should be told and history remembered.

Check out this; Secret Path by Gord Downie (lead singer of the Tragically Hip). It's so good. The story/movie itself is only half of this - the rest is documentary. The movie starts about 5m in. It is a family telling the story about lost family members. The story of the 5 Matches is very well known, and this is a great version of it.