Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia

Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by kstenerud on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:26AM (#27323843)

This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places!

This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched the surface.

Arte made a very good documentary about it, but I can't remember the name atm.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by bondant on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:39AM (#27323886)

Maybe this one https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/093799-000-A/killing-the-india... ?

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by throwaway24006 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:58AM (#27323940)

Found it on YouTube, blocked in most countries but see workaround below [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ

Whitelisted regions: AD, AT, BE, BG, BL, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GF, GP, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MF, MQ, MT, NC, NL, NO, PF, PL, PM, PT, RE, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TF, VA, WF, YT [2]

[1] downloading/streaming on VLC, mpv or whatever possible from this site: https://videocyborg.com/

[2] source: https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by tawaysat29may on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:49AM (#27324371)

Also shared on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeXqZxr6ky9ZmT7yVuoTyGB5mMsGVgpwxC7j61...

The file downloads with a hash name, but its a .mkv container. Add the filetype to the filename once downloaded and it should play.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by ncann on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:16PM (#27327557)

I watch ARTE often and I wonder why this specific video is blocked here (Canada). Do they fear that they may face repercussion from the government or some other entities?

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by throwaway24006 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:29PM (#27327653)

Is this blocked too?

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/093799-000-A/killing-the-india...

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by ncann on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:02PM (#27327861)

Yeah that one is blocked as well.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by mykowebhn on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:33AM (#27325495)

There is also this excellent and difficult-to-watch movie about a Canadian First Nations boy who is forcibly separated from his family and raised in one of the Catholic orphanages. He has an extraordinary talent for playing hockey--this is a Canadian film after all--but that talent is squandered from all the abuse he is subjected to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Horse_(film)

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by kstenerud on Saturday May 29, 2021 @04:46AM (#27323902)

Yes that's the one! Thanks!

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by Xylakant on Saturday May 29, 2021 @05:25AM (#27324065)

There’s also a great comic book by Joe Sacco called “Paying the Land”. It’s an illustrated reportage where he travels to indigenous communities in Canada and recounts their stories. Resident schools and their destructive effects on individuals and communities are a recurring theme. I love the book, but it’s a hard read.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by bluishgreen on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:06PM (#27346688)

Not just in Canada. In the US as well.

https://smile.amazon.com/Kill-Indian-Save-Man-Residential/dp...

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by jmcan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @06:50AM (#27324378)

Almost destroyed an entire people? I think they where pretty successful in that regard.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by sterlind on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:24PM (#27327183)

almost, but not completely. there are still First Nations tribes, they still practice their cultures, the languages are critically endangered but many still have a few (usually elder) speakers.

I volunteer working to revitalize a Pacific Northwestern Indian language. there's still hope, and still ways to help.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by gogopuppygogo on Saturday May 29, 2021 @01:45PM (#27326919)

Might makes right destroyed entire ways of life in North America.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by Geezus_42 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:35PM (#27329857)

Not just North America, all over the colonized world.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by tjs8rj on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:55AM (#27330940)

Not just the colonized world, anywhere humans have existed. Violence is a norm in all human societies everywhere.

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by Wendake on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:09PM (#27327069)

The Documentary film "Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket" is very sad, but it has first hand accounts from some of the former students. https://humanrights.ca/story/picking-up-the-pieces-the-makin...

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Re:Remains of 215 children found at former residential schoo... by trhway on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:33PM (#27327686)

> we've barely scratched the surface.

USSR had and Russia still has boarding schools for the children of the indigenous people of the North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVWOd-DsAw. I wonder if there any reckoning is to come here.

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