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Canada's Residential Schools
no arrests?
Almost 7000 bodies found and not one member of the church has been arrested. The names are out there. The church must be held accountable. #NeverForget#EveryChildMatters
— Wambli Ska Wicasa 🦅🪶 (@LakotaWambli) August 30, 2021
Crime Scene
The Justice Department is protecting the names of many perpetrators of abuse of Indigenous children.
— Charlie Angus NDP (@CharlieAngusNDP) July 8, 2021
We need a special independent prosecutor who can force the government and church to turn over the documents.
There can be no reconciliation without justice.@MumilaaqQaqqaq pic.twitter.com/5TL6OxKM5O
This is a map of every residential "school" site in Canada.
— Mumilaaq Qaqqaq (@MumilaaqQaqqaq) June 24, 2021
Every dot is a crime scene.
Only a few have been investigated so far.
Canada, do not get used to these numbers.
Do not let them become statistics.
Put yourselves in the shoes of these children in the ground. pic.twitter.com/5XJS1w1ka2
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To Veronica Brown
Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.
Did you know?
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ADOPTION TRUTH
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.

Original Birth Certificate Map in the USA
Why tribes do not recommend the DNA swab
Detailed discussion of the Bering Strait theory and other scientific theories about the population of the modern-day Americas is beyond the scope of this essay. However, it should be noted that Indian people have expressed suspicion that DNA analysis is a tool that scientists will use to support theories about the origins of tribal people that contradict tribal oral histories and origin stories. Perhaps more important,the alternative origin stories of scientists are seen as intending to weaken tribal land and other legal claims (and even diminish a history of colonialism?) that are supported in U.S. federal and tribal law. As genetic evidence has already been used to resolve land conflicts in Asian and Eastern European countries, this is not an unfounded fear.
my ggrandmother was born 1897 and adopted at the age of 14 how could I find out if she was one of them? she was adopted by an irish family in friendsville pa around 1912
ReplyDeleteMy Granfather William G Cornette born 1917 American soldger was in iceland in the secont world waar where he met my Granmother I did hear story of my granfather he told his friend here in iceland he haw a natiwe American blood all we hawe found is the Irish half and not my grate granfathers parents there is wery difficult to find the other half. My Granfather looks Native American and so Dous my Mother, My mother haw 8 children meny of us hawe strong ficical aperance like Native American and granchildren and grate gran children all of us were born in Iceland. We wuld like to find the missing other half i tried to get dna test kit from Ancestry.com.and we were not able to get the kit becous of legal striction here in iceland.i am hoping to find help how to find way passed this strictions.
ReplyDeleteHi I had this happen to me and my brother's except during 1999-2003 2003 we were taken off are reserve in New Brunswick and put with a white family known to abuse indigenous children I don't know any of the language my family speaks as we are also half cree native and half Spanish native we were told we were white and beat sexually assaulted and eventually myself at 10 was sold by my adopted mother into the sex trade at 13 I managed to get free time at school and tell someone who reported it to police her spouse adopted spouse did 2 years prison time for sexual abuse she only did house arrest for feeding us Xanax and Adderall with alcohol at the age of 6 that we'd overdose and sick kids would call it into cas relatives of there own family would report them but nothing would be done i raised my brother's in diapers at 3-10 they still have custody of them they still believe there white I'm trying so hard to get them out of there care my brother with autism he's biological and also native when I was put into care at 13 with my brothers with Jewish family and child never native services because are adopted mom would say that agency she got custody back of my brother's a couple years later I fought and fought while id be transferred to home to home and I'd fight to stay out of that home my laywer found out that she was board of directors of Jewish family and child my adopted mother that's why they'd never take us seriously but I'd continuously be trafficked while under there care until age 17 when one of my traffickers was arrested and I got pregnant for my 11th pregnancy with my beautiful baby girl from a John we got married I converted to Islam and eventually found out I wasnt white that we've been native I've. Been to scared to share this to anyone in the native community as I'm still coming to terms that were not white and will never be and that I still after 9 years havnt seen my brother's and I'm trying to fight so hard to get them back they are the reason I fought so hard when I was being sold and now my daughter is the reason I try to fight my addiction as well as they are still motivating me my autsitic brother he wants out but my adopted mom signed his rights away and I don't know what to do he begs me online saying they beat him all this I try so hard but I wonder when it'll all stop this pain of knowing maybe I'll never see them again as they put a restraining order on me I pray I can get them out I'm sorry if maybe you guys think I'm white and don't belong here but I tried Ive wanted to share my story but have been scared thank you stay strong
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