In Positive Stories of Indian Residential Schools Must Also be Heard, Rubenstein and McCrae critically examine the current portrayal of the residential school system, which is often overwhelmingly negative. The authors argue that this narrative fails to acknowledge the positive experiences of many former students and the genuine intentions of those who worked within the system. While not dismissing the testimonies of abuse, the report emphasizes that these accounts do not represent the full spectrum of experiences at the schools.
Did the Prime Minister of Canada that was called a “Wildman” in the yearbook and posed for pictures in full blackface makeup with a sock jammed down the front of his pants to make his penis appear larger resign mid semester from a day school or residential school?
There were positive experiences for many students in rez schools but because of a non existent media and the desire to paint a very black picture of canada’s role, you will not hear anything positive
It will, of course, be denounced as hate literature, misinformation, disinformation, racist and in denial. Count of it.
The richest Liberals in the world that “believe” the residential school psyop still send their kids to residential schools.
No, there were only mass murders, mass graves, rape and torture, and you must believe in it or lose your job if you are a “professional” working under the thumb of the progressive-captured state proxies that govern you.
ALL non-believer deniers WILL be excommunicated!! You WILL be canceled. All Praise The Great Turtle Gaia!
Found this to be a very well balanced book. Does not gloss over wrongs; gives encouragement going forward.
https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=from+truth+comes+reconciliation&crid=1QG3CAR5O95MU&sprefix=from+truth%2Caps%2C101&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_10
There can be no reconciliation without the TRUTH first.
I was horrified when Trudeau2 just accepted all 91 recommendations, as it reads as an NDP manifesto. Unlike Trudeau, I read it thoroughly.
Facts:
1) Many Canadian Indians signed on to the policies of the day, which enabled all Canadian children to be educated and learn English/French as a second language. One can dispute this policy, but for many, this worked well.
2) Kids in that era caught childhood illnesses and died, as did staff who worked nearby and community members, as we did not have widely-available effective vaccines 100 years ago. My siblings and I had measles, mumps and chicken pox, as did my 1970’s children. My best friend spent a long time in the University of Calgary infirmary suffering from diptheria.
3) Wooden burial crosses were extremely common west of Ontario or east of Quebec (less granite east/west of the Canadian Shield; also granite markers are expensive). Wooden crosses deteriorate. Many of my 6th generation relatives were buried in un-marked graves in Calgary, and SK, and Ontario before that, back to the 1800s. It was expensive.
4) All schools, public or religious, were quite strict for children in 1926 up until about 1980. I recall having my knuckles whacked in grade 2 in the 1960’s for talking, and all adventurous boys ended up in the principal’s office to get “the strap”. My Calgary-born mother (b. 1913) also shared urban public school stories of rote memorization and strict behavioural/dress code rules.
5) The Kamloops band who initiated this mess are actually in great shape. They lease a lot of very nice land with expensive modern homes. I know because I have been to the show homes in Kamloops.
6) Many so-called “first nations” folks came north to Canada in the 1600 and 1700 period from the USA, thus are not really indigenous. Western Canadian (except BC) indians tended to be hunter-gatherers, so wandered up to Canada in the summer and went back to the US in winter.
Perhaps, that book will refer to those facts.
Wow…could this be the beginning of the end for the Residential School Grievance Industry? What are all those activists going to do for a living now that they can’t extort a livelihood from the government?
Long past due.
The Truth and Reconciliation report deliberately excluded any positive residential school experiences. They started with their forgone conclusion and then built the case. Policy based evidence making. So all who attended residential schools even if it was only day school are now deemed “survivors”. As Deplorable said, no reconciliation without truth. And it is not as if bad treatment of youth was only directed at native children. Just look up Mount Cashel Boys Home.
If those claiming to be looking for long-dead children would start by searching where they are most likely to be found – provincial death record repositories – they would quickly find them. Indeed, almost none of these children are missing, only lost and forgotten in the fullness of time.
-Hymie Rubenstein Editor of REAL Indigenous Report and a retired professor of anthropology, University of Manitoba.
At least HALF the population of the USA … and fully 2/3 of the Canadian population WANT to believe their countries of birth are PURE EVIL. And only THEY can wash-away the past sins of their predecessors.
Yes, this is a clinical diagnosis of mental illness. But sadly, we’ve mainstreamed the mentally ill into our society … and even given them highly paid positions in our government. No. No society can survive such an inversion of TRUTH and competency.
Thank you Sooke. This is true, as many counties and provinces have great genealogical records.
Not only provincial death records are important, but local repositories with lists of people buried, local christening records, family histories in local libraries, lists of people also researching the same family online, and much more.
It takes EFFORT to research your family. It took me 13 years to find my family and cousins and as many descendents as I could find.
The positive experiences disappeared as soon as money was made available to anyone abused in a residential school.