They should be kept in a remembrance museum where they won’t be forgotten and repeated.
Only with survivor approval or with their personal information redacted.
Didnt kids at the time work in coal mines as well?
It was a weird time with a lot of abuse to be remembered.
Residential schools operated well into the “modern” era. The last federally funded residential school closed in 1997…
The 60s scoop saw many MANY FN children taken from their families and put into foster with white families. Despite the name it started in the 50s and continued well into the 80s.
So yeah, I guess when the “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” program started there were kids working in coal mines. There’s people in their late 30s to mid 40s who were victims of this shit. So your comparison is a bit disingenuous at best, and downright strawman whataboutist bullshit at worst.
Not trying to be an asshole to you here about your comment. This isn’t something that happened only when children were working in coal mines.
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.
Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and, despite a multi-year outreach, some survivors say they didn’t know they could opt to have their files preserved.
Of the 38,000 people who filed claims with the IAP, 90 per cent had a hearing or settlement negotiation, according to the IAP website.
The process was made confidential so survivors would be comfortable sharing painful and personal details. It also meant that any people associated with the schools who were accused of abuse would not have those details made public.
The question of what to do with the files afterward arrived at the Supreme Court in 2017. The NCTR and the Canadian government opposed the destruction of the files, while many Catholic organizations, lawyers who acted for IAP claimants and the Assembly of First Nations supported destroying them.
