Originally Posted by
Gilroy
Are you trying to tell us that children forced from the hands of their parents by RCMP officers, separated from siblings, deprived of their parents, forced to speak only English, some even later adopted out. That the aboriginal community should be THANKFUL.
The whole idea of taking these children was not to look after them but to "take the Indian out of them" somehow make them fit into colonial society or the white man's world.
Sorry but so far I have not hear ONE SINGLE STORY where a child subject to the residential prison system wanted to THANK THE AUTHORITIES.
Perhaps you can dig up some accounts of this happening and post them for me?
How exactly did this learned TEACHER know they died of tuberculosis, was the teacher around them, was the teacher at the autopsy, was the teacher medically trained?
Children do die of disease and if they are white children their death and cause of death and burial place is marked and recorded.
How come we do not know the cause of death of these children, why are they in UNMARKED graves, why were their no autopsies done.