Residential School Survivors

When viewed from this lens, the churches were attempting to re-engineer the selves of

aboriginal children, and they did so incompetently. They did not have the knowledge to take into

account the aboriginal memes already within the selves of the children, nor did they understand

how their new Euro-centric memes would interact with those already in place. Further, they

offered a caricature of a Euro-Canadian self from which these children could model. Coupled

with ...

"The following chart outlines the levels of abuse that can be compensated through the Independent Assessment Process."

Click on the link for the outline of the "point system"...

http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/Schedule_D-IAP.PDF

By attaching “points” to various forms of sexual abuse, the IAP dehumanizes the residential school victims, reducing the egregious treatment of students to a numbers game. Further, this “points system” is inconsistent with well-established principles of tort law in that it eliminates consideration of the effects of the abuse on the victim. It is certainly arguable that singling out aboriginal people who were sexually and physically abused as children, and refusing to a...

"It is ironic that the people responsible for these crimes,committed by the Canadian government and their cohorts thier religious institutions, in the land currently controlled by Canada, the Catholic Church, and the Anglicans are now investigating themselves!?  Canada is endorsing ethnic cleansing to this day, and calling for the permanent denial of democratic and civil rights to the“Indian” residents of these Occupied Territories. Either way, the Canadian government does no...