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Native Indian boys forced to pray before bedtime at the Catholic-run St Mary's Mission School in Omak, Canada

Canada's Holocaust: Genocide In Church-Run Schools

Posted by Jon King on May 03, 2010

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Reports claim more than 50,000 native indian children abused, tortured and murdered in Canada’s Church-Run Schools…

Canada’s Holocaust

By Jon King

Residential Schools And The Indian Problem

More than 50,000 Native Indian children were systematically raped, tortured and murdered by priests and other church and government officials in Canada’s church-run ‘residential schools’.

The abuses began in the 1880s and continued throughout the 20th century, according to a report by the Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada (TCGC), endorsed by Amnesty International.

“It’s all about a population cull,” said Kevin Annett, a former reverend with Canada’s United Church who was defrocked and delisted by the church for speaking out about the abuses.

“The government and the multinational corporations wanted the Indian land, and so native children from as young as three years old were forcibly taken from their families and sent to residential schools, where they underwent ‘acculturation’ programs. Between fifty and one hundred thousand ended up dead, murdered by the church and the government.”

canadas_holocaust_residential_school According to a report in Amnesty International Magazine, these so-called ‘acculturation’ programs were adopted from a system already in use in the United States.

As the report says, the programs and the schools where they were run were all “part of Euro-America’s drive to solve the ‘Indian problem’ and end Native control of their lands”.

Rather than spend vast sums on military campaigns to gain control of the land, first the US and then Canada came up with a different idea altogether: they decided to ‘educate’ the savages instead.

It was an education none of the survivors would ever forget.

Canada’s Holocaust

Acculturation – “Kill The Indian And Save The Man”

The idea for residential schools, or boarding schools as they were called in the US, was the brainchild of one Captain Richard H. Pratt, a veteran from the ‘Indian wars’ who embarked on his new venture under the slogan: “Kill the Indian and save the man”.

Carlisle Industrial Training School For Native Indian Children circa 1880

Pratt’s Palatial Residence In Background

“Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit,” Pratt once said. His philosophy to “elevate American Indians to white standards through a process of forced acculturation that stripped them of their language, culture and customs” was eagerly adopted by the US government, and in 1879 Pratt opened the first federally sanctioned boarding school in the United States: the Carlisle Industrial Training School, in Pennsylvania, which he modelled on Florida’s notorious Fort Mason Indian Prison.

The ‘residential schools’ system was born.

Canada’s Holocaust

Quite Literally – A Holocaust

The ‘residential schools system’ was soon exported to neighbouring Canada, where it was decided the schools would be run by the Catholic, United and Anglican churches under the legislative authority of a fully complicit federal government.

According to the 2001 TCGC report, priests, nuns and other church officials were responsible for wholesale rape, torture and even murder at the schools.

Federal bodies including the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) not only turned a blind eye, but were also implicated in the sexual abuse and torture endured by the native children.

The TCGC also reported that the children were systematically beaten to death, poisoned, subjected to electric shock treatment; starved; experimented on, Nazi-style; and even deliberately exposed to smallpox and tuberculosis and left to die in squalid, agonizing conditions.

Left: United Church Sterilization Center, Bella Bella, B. Columbia

Canada’s Eugenics Laboratory

Lethal doses of radiation exposure were also administered, and in 1928 a law was passed in Alberta whereby Native girls were ‘forcibly sterilized’.

According to one report, “entire groups of Native children” were sterilized at the age of puberty, demonstrating that, at least in large part, the so-called ‘acculturation program’ was in fact nothing less than an experiment in social engineering—a Nazi-style ‘eugenics program’ intended to cull the native population.

Quite literally: a holocaust.

The TCGC also reported that children were frequently “rented out” by “clergy, police, business and government officials” to paedophile rings.

Canada’s Holocaust

Alcohol, Suicide And Sexual Abuse

Around 7000 lawsuits are currently pending in Canada, all brought by victims and survivors of these church-run death camps, where secret mass graves have recently been discovered.

canadas_holocaust_kevin_annett_2 Reverend Kevin Annett, pictured left, is currently campaigning to force the Vatican to reveal the sites of other suspected graves.

Meanwhile, court settlements are expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars, prompting Bishop Duncan Wallace of Canada’s Anglican church to comment recently that his church might “go out of business” due the vast amounts it was having to pay out to its victims.

Canada’s Anglican Church ran 30 of the schools involved in the program.

Tony Merchant, a Canadian lawyer representing around 4000 survivors of the schools, said the kind of physical cruelty experienced by the children “became the cover for sexual cruelty.”

“Many children we now know were repeatedly raped and tortured for sexual gratification,” he added, having sifted through a mountain of victim testimonies.

Further testimonies are coming to light almost daily.

“I wasn’t there more than six months and the sexual abuse started,” victim Ben Pratt recently reported. “I came out of school with a grade-three education. I can’t read or write.”

Another survivor of the abuse, 47-year-old Randy Fred, told the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society: “We were kids when we were raped and victimized. All the plaintiffs I’ve talked with have attempted suicide. I attempted suicide twice, when I was 19 and again when I was 20. We all suffered from alcohol abuse, drug abuse. Looking at the lists of students [abused in the school], at least half the guys are dead.”

Indeed, according to abuse counsellor Gerry Oleman, who has worked with many of the residential school victims: “Of the first twenty-nine men who publicly disclosed sexual abuse in Canadian residential schools, twenty-two committed suicide.”

Alcohol and drug abuse among native people currently runs at 6 times the national average, while some native communities in Canada boast the highest suicide rate, per capita, in the world.

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