Residential School Survivors


http://residentialschoolsurvivors.webs.com/

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This site is to discuss the IAP that is suppose to bring closure and healing to the survivors of the "Indian residential schools"

Independent Assessment Process (IAP) will be be discussed in the the discussion forum section of this website...We are looking forward to other insights into this process 

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The Residential School Experience: Syndrome or Historic Trauma

Posted by Rose on May 25, 2011 at 7:00 AM Comments comments (3)

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 practices of mind-control, damage was inevitable. Ishu Ishiama (1995)"

http://www.hawkeyeassociates.ca/articles/Residential%20Paper.pdf


IAP Point System

Posted by Rose on May 25, 2011 at 3:40 AM Comments comments (1)

"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


More on the IAP

Posted by Rose on May 24, 2011 at 3:35 AM Comments comments (1)

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 address their legal claims by way of established legal principles, does dishonour to the Crown and the churches.”

http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=269

 

 

IAP Process is Flawed

Posted by Rose on May 24, 2011 at 3:25 AM Comments comments (0)

"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 not recognize the “First Nation peoples of Kanata” as Canadian citizens and the policies Canada is endorsing will do more damage to the Canadian Interests throughout the world.

These pedophilic, horrendous crimes took place in the middle of the Indigenous peoples’ homeland; That is what I think has to be honestly assessed as what it is, Criminal negligence of Indigenous children and abide by the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court  in a transparent  and realistic way.

For Example: “the IAP process, in its current state, is not the panacea that some are claiming it to be. Rather, the proposed package fails to provide the foundation for a fair and lasting resolution to the residential schools human rights issues.

 

In at least four significant ways, the IAP is fundamentally flawed. If these shortcomings are not rectified, the AIP will have failed to address the tremendous harm that the residential schools experience and legacy has had on First Nation individuals and communities across the country.”

http://www.kenrahn.com/jfk/critical_thinking/Prob_belief_proof.html <sorry this link doesn't work, have to find another one)


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