genocide
Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’
August 12, 2021Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.
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Oh, Canada…Home and Native land?
June 29, 2021Evidence piles up of genocide against Native children in Canada. People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney weighs in.
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Canada genocide evidence piles up; over 600 more Indigenous children’s bodies found
June 25, 2021“This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan.
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Statue of Egerton Ryerson, architect of Canada’s racist residential schools, toppled
June 7, 2021By late Sunday evening, protesters returned with a saw and removed Ryerson’s head, while at the base of his former perch lay 215 pairs of children’s shoes, one for each of the bodies found in Kamloops.
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The devastating, irreparable death of Aruká Juma
March 3, 2021The death of the last survivor of the Juma people, the warrior Amoim Aruká, from complications linked to COVID-19, is an incalculable tragedy. There were 15,000 of them at the turn of the 20th century and...
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