Van Geyn is an example of the otherwise good writers who deem it necessary to virtue signal about things they obviously know little about before making their main point. Children at residential schools didn’t “disappear” etc. The fact is that negative aspects of residential schools have been vastly overblown, while positive aspects have been ignored completely. Many children had bad experiences there, but most of the Indian leaders of the past generations were educated there. It was a mixed bag. Great article!
Michelle Stirling, one of Canada's truly great journalists, writes that "a former Indian Residential School student denounced the fact that she was taken away to school, despite the fact that she wanted to stay with her grandfather. It was alarming that she did not reveal she was an orphan.... Both of her parents had died, she said, as had her grandmother, leaving the grandfather to try and care for this girl and her three siblings, plus nine others, as she told it. My point is that children do not understand what their parents or caregivers are up against in life." The girl had many reasons to feel trauma in her young life but the point of residential schools was to give her an education and an escape from destitution.
“ The TRC heard from ~6,500 former students. This seems like a very large number, but it is only 4% of all the people who had attended. Most of these students attended in the latter years of the schools operations, all of which were closed by 1997; many of the schools in the last 20-30 years were run by Indigenous First Nations groups.” This is one of the most important points this courageous writer makes in this article. In other words, most of the “abused” residential school “survivors” who testified at the TRC went to schools run by their own people.
The depiction of the so called "True Crime" story depicted in the fraudulent documentary "Sugarcane " must be challenged! Perhaps in the alternative Media as the mainstream media is hopelessly delusional if not outright dishonest.
As interviewer Nicholas Wansbutter points out, "neither Truth nor Reconsileation are occurring " so long as the henious false narrative is allowed to persist!
Both "Truth" and "Reconsileation " are sorely needed!
Van Geyn is an example of the otherwise good writers who deem it necessary to virtue signal about things they obviously know little about before making their main point. Children at residential schools didn’t “disappear” etc. The fact is that negative aspects of residential schools have been vastly overblown, while positive aspects have been ignored completely. Many children had bad experiences there, but most of the Indian leaders of the past generations were educated there. It was a mixed bag. Great article!
Michelle Stirling, one of Canada's truly great journalists, writes that "a former Indian Residential School student denounced the fact that she was taken away to school, despite the fact that she wanted to stay with her grandfather. It was alarming that she did not reveal she was an orphan.... Both of her parents had died, she said, as had her grandmother, leaving the grandfather to try and care for this girl and her three siblings, plus nine others, as she told it. My point is that children do not understand what their parents or caregivers are up against in life." The girl had many reasons to feel trauma in her young life but the point of residential schools was to give her an education and an escape from destitution.
Michelle thank you so very much for all you do. This is an excellent essay and I also loved your documentary as well. Keep up the great work !!
Thank you Michelle Stirling for having the courage to write the truth in these dangerous times.
“ The TRC heard from ~6,500 former students. This seems like a very large number, but it is only 4% of all the people who had attended. Most of these students attended in the latter years of the schools operations, all of which were closed by 1997; many of the schools in the last 20-30 years were run by Indigenous First Nations groups.” This is one of the most important points this courageous writer makes in this article. In other words, most of the “abused” residential school “survivors” who testified at the TRC went to schools run by their own people.
Excellent interview in the embedded interview!
The depiction of the so called "True Crime" story depicted in the fraudulent documentary "Sugarcane " must be challenged! Perhaps in the alternative Media as the mainstream media is hopelessly delusional if not outright dishonest.
As interviewer Nicholas Wansbutter points out, "neither Truth nor Reconsileation are occurring " so long as the henious false narrative is allowed to persist!
Both "Truth" and "Reconsileation " are sorely needed!
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Great work, I am a huge fan.
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