More than 150 000 Children are taken. This is really all you need to know about residential schools. In Canada, More than 150,000 children from among the indigenous peoples visited these institutions from the 1870s to the end of the 1990s. There they died, suffered and hurt – for their families, communities, languages and lifestyle.
Today, There is still Children of indigenous peoples in care than in the midst of a school school system. This is an important problem, especially at a time when many in Canadian society strive to come to terms. Reconciliation simply cannot happen when our children and families continue to suffer.
I was hired in 2020 to be trained for new journalism called IndiginewsMy rhythm was a system of social support for children, where I was engaged in my experience as a youth worker supporting children from among the indigenous peoples participating in the social security system of children. I remain persecuted stories that I reported, and statistics related to the children and youth of the indigenous peoples in Canada. For example, the number of girls from the indigenous peoples who disappear during the care of the province of British Colombia, and the continuation of the cycles immortalized by the social security system for children who have been seeping in Canada prisons, increase the same harm that the locals fought to heal and recover for decades.
Before TRC appeared, there was an agreement on the settlement of Indian residential schools. This settlement until recently was the biggest settlement of the class in the history of Canada. The agreement reflects decades of lawying indigenous peoples in order to require responsibility for harm and losses incurred by children in residential schools, and for other mechanisms of colonialism, such as land loss, access to language, ceremony and culture.
The settlement agreement stands on the shoulders of those who participated in Constitution Express (Cross -country protest, led by activists of indigenous peoples, in order to ensure the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the patriarch of the Canadian constitution), those families who protected their land during Kanehsatà: Ke ReviepanceAnd those thousands of parents who fought for information about the whereabouts of their children. Then there was no more downtime, the movement, starting since 2012, where the indigenous peoples throughout Canada I got up To say that we are collectively and literally sick to the death of our people, falling into cracks.
All these are examples of movements that contributed to justice and justice for indigenous peoples in Canada. To this day, many Canadians do not know that indigenous nations do not receive money from Canadian taxpayers. Our programs and services are partially financed by a trust held by the federal government, and the interest received by this trust is sent to education, healthcare and management. This paternalistic approach was a mogging in problems, and as a result we see a huge inequality throughout Canada, including the lack of access to pure drinking water and saving drugs. And it is the same paternalism that tells the indigenous peoples that we do not know what is better for our lands, our communities and our children.
A 2024 Research The University of Manitobes and the Assembly of the Leaders of Manitobes found a “stunning” number of newborn indigenous nations in Manitobe participating in the system of social support for children; Subsequently, this year it was noted that half of the families of the first nations in Manitoba opened for them a file of well -being of children. In BC Children from among the indigenous peoples Still makeup A large percentage of children in the care of the province, despite attempts to distract children from falling through cracks and, despite the adoption of the United Nations on the rights of indigenous peoples to a provincial law.
The first five calls to actions are concentrated on the well -being of children, the area of Canadian law and politics, which suffers from the detention of children and the rupture of families of indigenous peoples. The calls seek to solve the problem of excessive representation of children of indigenous peoples and youth in the care of the governments of the provinces and to provide support from children from among the indigenous peoples with their families and communities.
But ten years later, we are at a time when these challenges are drowned by apathy and a denial of harm to residential schools. The impulse, which followed the disclosure of nameless graves and missing children, is not awakened without awakening, and all other efforts of the indigenous peoples in attracting the attention of the world weaken. Instead, energy is caused so that Canada can quickly use the Earth for rare minerals in the name of Canadian sovereignty.
We cannot allow these challenges to disappear from our minds. Our collective memory needs this information, so we do not forget how Canada allowed the harm of many children. This memory will help us to pave a new path forward. Like a root mother, I have to believe in it.
