Greetings to my esteemed friends on the InformationWar platform and the entire hive blockchain. It's another day and time to share with you happenings around the world and today it'll lead us to Canada and the subject matter is on the indigenous languages and cultures that have been affected by the Canadian educational system. It's your friend @faquan, saying hello from this part of the world.
A Canadian Federal Court have asked the Canadian government to pay $2.1bn to a group of indigenous communities for intentionally restricting their children from understanding their languages and cultures.
The Canadian residential schools was used as a tool to separate indigenous children from their language and culture and this was in existence from 1800 to the 1990s. Children were separated from their parents in a bid to attend the residential schools that where under the Catholic supervision. Many b of those children have been separated from their languages and cultures, which has an implication on the future and existence of the people's culture.
Culture they said is the way of life of a people entails and harnesses both cultural practices as well as the people's languages. Once this aspects of the people life is taken away from them, it means that the actors had intention to wipe out an entire indigenous community from existence. This on its own is a crime as humanity.
During these years, it has been discovered that most of the children were abused and their human rights violated by their people in-charge.
Over the past two years, there have been discoveries of thousands of unmarked graves at the former schools that put the spotlight on Canada’s dark colonial past. More than 1,300 graves have been identified.
Earlier this month, ground-penetrating radar uncovered nearly “2,000 areas of interest” that need to be thoroughly investigated in Lebret, Saskatchewan, the Star Blanket Cree community said.
A fragment of a child’s jawbone dating to some 125 years ago has already been identified on the grounds of a former residential school in the western Canadian community.Source
An urgency should be placed in investigating this evil and uncover the level of inhumane attitudes that was carried out by a so called mission school. Mission schools in other parts of the world have been a spotlight for promoting morals, but in this case it's the reverse.
In 2015, a national commission of inquiry called the residential schools system and a cultural genocide. This is because it had the ability to wipeout certain indigenous cultures from existence.
Hundreds of people demanded an independent investigation of residential schools that indigenous children were forced to attend.
This has led to the decision taken by the federal court to fine the Canadian government $2.1bn to be paid to the affected indigenous communities, although the pattern of payment has not been clearly stated by the court.
Meanwhile, more investigations is ongoing to determine more areas that the residential schools have committed atrocities in the past.
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