ICYMI: Cuthand: True Indigenous redress means more than just removing names
So what’s all the fuss about? It seems that all three had a hand in the establishment of the residential school system and John A., in particular, practised a form of genocide in the clearing of the plains for settlement.
Egerton Ryerson was an educator from Upper Canada who was the father of the industrial schools, which were the forerunner of the boarding schools. Saskatchewan had two industrial schools, one in Regina and the other in Battleford. He stated that if the children were left with their family they might learn to read and write, but in the end, they would still be savages. Whereas if they were separated from their parents, whey could become civilized. He was rewarded with the naming of the Langevin Block which houses the office of the prime minister and the Privy Council.
As far as they were concerned, the West would be opened to settlement and the Indigenous people had no role except to shut up and assimilate. Unbelievable though it sounds, the industrial schools that begat the church-run residential schools were the only institutions created to actually improve the lot of our people.
Following the executions, John A. wrote to Edgar Dewdney, “The executions of the Indians … ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs.” Racism, white privilege and the doctrine of discovery are just a part of Canadian Confederation. John A. Macdonald was only the frontman. Following the signing of the treaties, they divided up the spoils and feasted like pigs at the trough.
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