Category: We Are All Treaty People

A Change Based On Lies

The CBC and the rest of the “woke” media are excited that Ryerson University will change its name. The narrative is that Ryerson committed genocide in residential schools. Ryerson is known as the founder of public education in Ontario. He lived and was adopted by an Indian tribe, and was invited by chiefs to develop agriculture programs so Indians could feed themselves. He was a believer in providing education to the tribes so they could function in a modern society. Residential schools came after his death, and scholars have stated that he would have been shocked at the abuses that occurred. But hey, it doesn’t fit the narrative that all things colonial are racist. Turtle Island University??

Everything Is Racist On Turtle Island!

Time for your kids to seek jobs in the trades. Blackie’s CBC is excited that history courses at Canadian universities are being rewritten to show that our European ancestors were racist, genocidal, settlers. And there is more. Apparently road projects are racist. Thunder Bay is in trouble for having a racist cowboy on a horse or something to celebrate a new roundabout. Roundabouts are racist.

Today in Church Bashing

So much journalizing.

Millions meant for residential school survivors spent on Catholic Church lawyers, administration: documents

The Roman Catholic Church spent millions of dollars that were supposed to go to residential school survivors on lawyers, administration, a private fundraising company and unapproved loans, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

The documents include a host of other revelations. They appear to contradict the Catholic Church’s public claims about money paid to survivors.

Wow! They must have a great source to back this all up.

A source directly involved in the case verified their authenticity. CBC News is not naming the source 

Meanwhile in nothing to see here land.

It’s not Racist

When Liberals do it. 

Indigenous employees were regularly sidelined by a “toxic” working environment in the office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett but their complaints fell on deaf ears, several former staffers have told CBC News.

CBC News spoke with more than half-a-dozen Indigenous and non-Indigenous former staffers who worked in Bennett’s office at various points between 2016 and 2020.

 

1971 Leader Post: “Chiefs Request (Marieval) School Be Kept”

By Ruth Shaw, Staff Reporter

YORKTON (Staff) – A resolution asking that the Marieval Residental School be kept open as long as the Indian people want it, was passed by the chiefs and counsellors of eight Indian bands at a regional meeting held Thursday.

The meeting was held in the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, with Joe Whitehawk of Yorkton, district
supervisor, as chairman.

Various spokesmen said the pupils are generally children from broken homes, orphans or are from inadequate homes. There is a great need for the school and the need is increasing, rather than diminishing. Many of the children have no other place to stay, as many have only grandparents, who through lack of space, health or age are unable to look after them.

The alternative is foster homes, which will cost just as much money. Children in the residential school get a measure of correction, discipline and religious training and this should be taken into consideration, when plans are under study for the phasing out of the school, the spokesman said.

While residential schools are not the best, they meet the most needs of the children. Children in foster homes are deprived of correction, discipline and religious training. The older members were disciplined and given religious training and “we must get back to these old traditions,” the spokesman said. The spokesman, who is a community development officer, said the Marievale Residential School must be expanded one step further and a junior high school established.

Another spokesman said the Indian people passed a resolution asking that the school remain open and it should not be up to the department to say whether the school should be closed.

Another said that if the request is made it should remain open and “the people should not be bribed to close the place.”

Chief Antoine Cote of the Cote reserve said the people on his reserve are not satisfied with the integration of Indian students at Kamsack.

“They claim there is no discrimination, but there is and we realize there is. One of the reasons of phasing out the student residential schools is so our children can be sent to so called integrated schools,” he said.

I’ve copied the full text of the report here: Leader Post, November 19, 1971

Smoke Them If You Got Them

Seems to be a rallying cry we’re hearing from a certain segment of the ignorant elite these day’s.  

While some cheer on the destruction of churches, First Nations pick up the pieces
After a failed arson attack on an on-reserve Anglican church, Gitwangak First Nation said the church had no connection to residential schools. Vandals returned to burn it down anyway.

They’re in a hurry to rewrite history so they don’t have to bother learning any of it.

Terry Glavin: Canada’s early Christian prophets were Indigenous. Now someone’s destroying their churches
As pyres have been made of sturdy little churches built by First Nations, the sneering of all those white ‘allies’ is the thing to notice

Do Tell…

Some Damn fine reporting here.

LILLEY: Unmarked graves were documented years ago but most of us looked away
It was all there in the 2015 report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

It was all there, ready for anyone to read in the 2015 report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There is an entire 273-page volume devoted just to this issue titled, “Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.”

The language in the report is matter of fact, the content is heartbreaking.

A total of 3,201 children documented to have died, or thought to have died, at Canada’s residential schools. Thought to have died is included because records remain incomplete — some are thought to have died after running away, others were presumed dead when they did not return.

As for the cemeteries, they are there in the report.

These were not hidden cemeteries as some have wrongfully thought or implied, they were part of the whole horrid system. The schools had cemeteries because the government refused to pay to transport the bodies of students who died back to their parents.

Read the whole thing, every word.

Official Report

Update: Candace Malcolm has a good summary/recap here. h/t Warren Zoell

The Gulag Trudeaupia: Diversity Is Our Cudgel

A day in the life of a Transport Canada employee’s email bin. (Edited for length)

Last chance! Submit your P.R.I.D.E story to the Positive Space team [6] by Friday, July 9

Faces of Change: See how Emma Comeau is supporting reconciliation through co-management [7]

Reminder: The MS Teams recording feature is now restricted at TC [8]

Are you struggling to maintain your mental health? You are not alone
· Watch these videos from LifeSpeak [15] if you have been affected by the news from Canada’s residential schools (client name and password: canada)
· Visit the Wellness Together Canada portal [16] for mental health and substance abuse support

Check out the Agile Centre of Excellence’s new and revamped Agile Foundations training [17]! New dates available in July

Learn more about Indigenous culture and reconciliation
· Rewatch presentations by Indigenous speakers:

o Inuit history and culture by Kevin Qamanik-Mason of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami [18]
o Métis history, culture and reconciliation with Shirley Delorme Russell of the Louis Riel Institute [19]
· Check out the Indigenous Learning Hub [20] on myTC
· Visit the Canada School of Public Service’s Indigenous E-Learning: Tools and resources [21] page
· Sign up for Reconciliation, Relationship and Treaty 11 Centenary [22] – Wednesday, July 7
· Read the Translation Bureau’s blog Innu: A rapidly transforming language [23]
· Read Our Women and Girls are Sacred [24], the interim report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Check out upcoming Canada School of Public Service events [25] like this one:
· Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion: A Year After George Floyd [26] – Thursday, July 8

News Releases:
· Minister of Transport announces funding for Indigenous communities to address underwater vessel noise impacts on marine mammals [27]
· Building a green economy: Government of Canada to require 100% of car and passenger truck sales be zero-emission by 2035 in Canada [28]
· Minister of Transport highlights the important contribution of seafarers [29]

This week’s emails from our leaders
· Message from the Deputy Ministers – Monday, June 28 [30]
· Message to managers [31] – Wednesday, June 30

Hang in there, Al.

Not Just Any Church

BBC

Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney, said on Thursday one of the vandalised locations was an African Evangelical Church in the city of Calgary.

He said its congregation was made up entirely of former refugees who fled countries where churches are often vandalised and burned down.

“These folks came to Canada with the hope that they could practise their faith peacefully,” tweeted Mr Kenney, a Conservative. “Some of them are traumatised by such attacks.

Ladies and gentlemen your Canadian social justice warriors at their finest.

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