Ottawa to announce $800M settlement with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop

[shockedcanadian]

Just disgusting. Indigenous children taken from their families for lengthy periods of time, their culture and histories stolen. This didn't happen 150 years ago, this as happening as late as 1984!

Glad to see Canada has decided to enter the 21st Century. Once again the taxpayer has to pay for our forefathers abuses in society.

Ottawa to announce $800M settlement with Indigenous survivors of Sixties Scoop

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[Pogo]

Are they still taking John MacDonald off the $10 note for this?

I tell ya, gotta watch those "Donalds".....

 

[shockedcanadian]

Are they still taking John MacDonald off the $10 note for this?

I tell ya, gotta watch those "Donalds".....

Way worse than that. The RCMP were happy participants in forcibly herding these kids. Sick puppies.

Then like always they deny deny deny. As they denied fault in the killing of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver airport, denied burning barns, entrapping, or shooting a guy in the back of the head when he was handcuffed to a tree.

No regard for liberty, human rights or human life. Once again, the taxpayer pays for the abuses of them and the OPP in this dark period. A period we never seem to break out of...

RCMP 'herded' native kids to residential schools

Former aboriginal students who say the RCMP herded them off to residential schools are expressing a sense of validation following the release of a report into the Mounties' role in the notorious school system.

However, not all the survivors believe the report will help with their healing.

The RCMP released the report Saturday at a Halifax session of the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is looking into how 150,000 aboriginal children were taken from their families over more than a century.

The 463-page report found that the RCMP had a major involvement in bringing students from First Nation communities to the residential schools.

Various data sources were collected over a 30-month period between April 2007 and September 2009 to answer questions about the RCMP's relationship with schools, students, federal agencies and departments.






Passamaquoddy elder Fredda Paul, from Pleasant Point reservation in Maine, spoke about his experiences at the commission on Saturday. Paul spent nine years at a school, and said Saturday he was sexually abused by a priest at the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia.

"I went up to Father Macky's office, and he penetrated me. That I will never forget," Paul said at the commission.

Paul told CBC News he thought the report would help with his healing, but it didn't.

Frank Thomas, a residential school survivor, said he believed the report was worthless.

"Why should it mean anything?" Thomas questioned. "When they are still going around shooting unarmed native people, letting them die in their jails without giving them medical assistance, do they call that justice?"

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been holding public sessions in Halifax since Wednesday.

The report says that at times, RCMP withheld information from parents of residential school students about what was happening with their children, and at times they acted like truant officers to schools.

"Students saw themselves herded like cattle and brought into RCMP cars and taken into school. What they say is that these stories have come out throughout the years, but what this does today is validate those stories and show that they were true," CBC reporter Michael Dick said in Halifax.

Mounties say they were unaware
RCMP stress in the report that the force did not know what was going on behind the schools' walls, where abuse was rampant, and that they were trying to act in the best interest with the information they knew at the time.

The Mounties stressed that the abuse in residential schools happened all over the country.

Approximately 150,000 aboriginal children were forced to attend residential schools. The Mounties were summoned to forcibly take the children to the schools if their families resisted sending them away.

 

[Pogo]

Are they still taking John MacDonald off the $10 note for this?

I tell ya, gotta watch those "Donalds".....

Way worse than that. The RCMP were happy participants in forcibly herding these kids. Sick puppies.

Then like always they deny deny deny. As they denied fault in the killing of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver airport, denied burning barns, entrapping, or shooting a guy in the back of the head when he was handcuffed to a tree.

No regard for liberty, human rights or human life. Once again, the taxpayer pays for the abuses of them and the OPP in this dark period. A period we never seem to break out of...

RCMP 'herded' native kids to residential schools

Former aboriginal students who say the RCMP herded them off to residential schools are expressing a sense of validation following the release of a report into the Mounties' role in the notorious school system.

However, not all the survivors believe the report will help with their healing.

The RCMP released the report Saturday at a Halifax session of the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is looking into how 150,000 aboriginal children were taken from their families over more than a century.

The 463-page report found that the RCMP had a major involvement in bringing students from First Nation communities to the residential schools.

Various data sources were collected over a 30-month period between April 2007 and September 2009 to answer questions about the RCMP's relationship with schools, students, federal agencies and departments.






Passamaquoddy elder Fredda Paul, from Pleasant Point reservation in Maine, spoke about his experiences at the commission on Saturday. Paul spent nine years at a school, and said Saturday he was sexually abused by a priest at the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia.

"I went up to Father Macky's office, and he penetrated me. That I will never forget," Paul said at the commission.

Paul told CBC News he thought the report would help with his healing, but it didn't.

Frank Thomas, a residential school survivor, said he believed the report was worthless.

"Why should it mean anything?" Thomas questioned. "When they are still going around shooting unarmed native people, letting them die in their jails without giving them medical assistance, do they call that justice?"

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been holding public sessions in Halifax since Wednesday.

The report says that at times, RCMP withheld information from parents of residential school students about what was happening with their children, and at times they acted like truant officers to schools.

"Students saw themselves herded like cattle and brought into RCMP cars and taken into school. What they say is that these stories have come out throughout the years, but what this does today is validate those stories and show that they were true," CBC reporter Michael Dick said in Halifax.

Mounties say they were unaware
RCMP stress in the report that the force did not know what was going on behind the schools' walls, where abuse was rampant, and that they were trying to act in the best interest with the information they knew at the time.

The Mounties stressed that the abuse in residential schools happened all over the country.

Approximately 150,000 aboriginal children were forced to attend residential schools. The Mounties were summoned to forcibly take the children to the schools if their families resisted sending them away.

Yeah I've been following much of the aftermath of this on CBC.

Thanks for drawing attention to it.

 

[mdk]

I think that settlement is too low for such a monotonous crime.