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Support Info: If you are a Survivor and need emotional support, a national crisis line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week: Residential School Survivor Support Line: 1-866-925-4419. Additional Health Support Information: Emotional, cultural, and professional support services are also available to Survivors and their families through the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. Services can be accessed on an individual, family, or group basis.” These & regional support phone numbers are found at https://nctr.ca/contact/survivors/ .
Jawbone found in possible unmarked residential school grave | "Six years old, I was imprisoned here"
The landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, released
in 2015, identified 3,200 confirmed deaths of children at residential
schools but the number is believed to be higher. Not all deaths were
properly recorded and the bodies of some of the children were never sent
home. In some cases, grave markers were lost to time or removed.
Getty Images: Children's shoes have come to be a symbol for the estimated thousands of children who died while attending residential school.
By Holly Honderich (BBC)
An
indigenous nation in Canada said it has discovered evidence of possible
unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school.
Star
Blanket Cree Nation said a ground-penetrating radar had revealed the
jawbone fragment of a small child and more than 2,000 "areas of
interest".
Those are not yet confirmed to be evidence of human remains.
But the fragment "is physical proof of an unmarked grave", project lead Sheldon Poitras said on Thursday.
The
discovery from the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan follows a
wave of investigations into possible unmarked graves at the sites of
former residential schools in Canada. Ground searches starting in the
spring of 2021 have uncovered evidence of more than 1,100 such graves
across the country.
Areas
for this most recent search were identified after testimonials from
elders and former students of the former Qu'Appelle Indian Residential
School.
"It
was unthinkable. It was profound. It was sad. It was hurtful," Star
Blanket Chief Michael Starr said on Thursday of the discovery. "It made
us very angry what had happened to our young people here."
These
government-funded compulsory boarding schools were part of a policy
meant to assimilate indigenous children and destroy indigenous cultures
and languages. Some 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were
taken from their families placed in these schools from the 19th Century
into the 1970s.
Survivors
had long testified about children who died at the schools, where
students were often housed in poorly built, poorly heated, and
unsanitary facilities.
The
landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, released in
2015, identified 3,200 confirmed deaths of children at residential
schools but the number is believed to be higher. Not all deaths were
properly recorded and the bodies of some of the children were never sent
home. In some cases, grave markers were lost to time or removed.
Investigators
said they were considering options, including DNA testing, to confirm
the findings of the radar at Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School. Some
of the anomalies picked up by the search could be innocuous, things
like stones or pieces of wood.
The
jawbone was analysed by the Saskatchewan Coroners Services, who said it
belonged to a child aged four to six and is approximately 125 years old
- around the time the school was founded.
The
Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, in southern Saskatchewan, was one
of the first residential schools to open in Canada and was run by the
Roman Catholic Church from 1884 to 1973. It was eventually closed in
1998.
Noel Starblanket, a former student at Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School wrote in a testimonial for the University of Regina that he was constantly "slapped on the side of the head" at the school. One teacher struck him in the face and broke his nose.
"My
parents never hit me, my grandparents," he wrote. Before going to
school "I didn't know what it meant to be hit, physically abused".
The
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program has a
hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives
suffering trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse. The number is
1-866-925-4419.
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The religious organizations that operated the schools — the Anglican Church of Canada, Presbyterian Church in Canada, United Church of Canada, Jesuits of English Canada and some Catholic groups — in 2015 expressed regret for the “well-documented” abuses. The Catholic Church has never offered an official apology, something that Trudeau and others have repeatedly called for.
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
The Justice Department is protecting the names of many perpetrators of abuse of Indigenous children. 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.@MumilaaqQaqqaqpic.twitter.com/5TL6OxKM5O
— Charlie Angus NDP (@CharlieAngusNDP) July 8, 2021
This is a map of every residential "school" site in Canada.
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.
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New York’s 40-year battle for OBC access ended when on January 15 2020, OBCs were opened to ALL New York adoptees upon request without restriction. In only three days, over 3,600 adoptees filed for their record of birth. The bill that unsealed records was passed 196-12.
According to the 2020 Census, 3.6% of Colorado's population is American Indian or Alaska Native, at least in part, with the descendants of at least 200 tribal nations living in the Denver metro area.
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We conclude this series & continue the conversation by naming that adoption is genocide. This naming refers to the process of genocide that breaks kinship ties through adoption & other forms of family separation & policing 🧵#NAAM2022#AdoptionIsTraumaAND#AdopteeTwitter#FFY 1/6 pic.twitter.com/46v0mWISZ1
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.” 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
Rebecca Tallbear entitled: “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, bearing out what I only inferred:
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.
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