Hello world! What to think about Canada’s cover up?

Indigenous people have long been talking about the violence they experienced, and witnessed, in the prison camp for Indigenous children, euphemistically referred to as ‘residential schools.’ The problem was that Canada wasn’t listening. For a long while, Indigenous folks were ‘gaslit’ while mainstream Canada minimized their suffering and asked ‘when are you going to get over it’?

If you have ever been the victim of a crime, or violence, you will probably agree that truth and justice are important for recovery. In the case of the institutional internment of Indigenous children, as in other violent experiences, the dominant discourse has protected the perpetrators and blamed the victims, casting the problem as something wrong in the miind of the victim(s) rather than state-inflicted violence. The offending parties in this genocide were church and state, spinning events in ways that justify the violence as an act of benevolence and civilization. However, the discovery of over 1,000 child graves, by Canada Day 2021, has many Canadians feeling outrage and disgust. The violence can no longer be hidden. One pertinent question pertains to the likelihood of trials, even post-humous ones, to hold the killers responsible for their actions? Will the Canadian government take reponsibility and treat these heinous acts as crimes against humanity? We will see. In documenting these events, the media and police need to stop talking about the burning of catholic churches as “suspicious”. With the Pope’s refusal to apologize, and learning that the government has deliberately tried to deflect attention away from the assassination of Indigenous children, perhaps the media could study popular historical responses to domination and class arrogance while considering the possibility that political resistance may consist of something deeper than mere “foul play”. Indigenous activists have long been reminding us to “respect our existance or expect our resistance!” We await the trials.