This transition to provincial services led to a 1951 [Indian Act] amendment that enabled the Province to provide services to Aboriginal people where none existed federally. Child protection was one of these areas. In 1951, twenty-nine Aboriginal children were in provincial care in British Columbia; by 1964, that number was 1,466. Aboriginal children, who had comprised only 1 percent of all children in care, came to make up just over 34 percent.[22]
Wow wild, seems they did it under the guise of protective services, as if those people lived in substandard conditions. It also looks like the residential schools had the same premise, where there were no schools in remote areas and every child HAD to go to a white mans school and learn English literacy. Pretty crazy to dress it up as child welfare.
The bit of my previous comment where I said “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”? That was literally the thought process. Beat the Savage out of them, destroy the culture and make the Savage civilised. And the ripples from this are still more like waves right now. FN people are over represented in prisons. Missing women and children aren’t investigated by police. Assaults on FN people often go without repercussions.
It’s systemic racism. It’s a genocide that’s been going for more than a century, and things are only just starting to get unfucked.
Wow wild, seems they did it under the guise of protective services, as if those people lived in substandard conditions. It also looks like the residential schools had the same premise, where there were no schools in remote areas and every child HAD to go to a white mans school and learn English literacy. Pretty crazy to dress it up as child welfare.
The bit of my previous comment where I said “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”? That was literally the thought process. Beat the Savage out of them, destroy the culture and make the Savage civilised. And the ripples from this are still more like waves right now. FN people are over represented in prisons. Missing women and children aren’t investigated by police. Assaults on FN people often go without repercussions.
It’s systemic racism. It’s a genocide that’s been going for more than a century, and things are only just starting to get unfucked.