Residential schools. Damned if they didn't. Damned because they did. Yes Siree. Colonialists! Those horrid "culture erasers." (Such irony!) Okay: Every. Single. Indian kid should have been left in the bush. "Hunt/Fish/Massacre other tribes/Communicate with the "spirits." Smoke peyote in their "Sweat Lodges." Whatever. They tried to teach these kids. Verdict: Damned. If they hadn't? "They didn't care about the "Indigenous" kids." Bah. Should have left them in the forest; running around in their loincloths. Maybe they'd eventually be discovered/studied by anthropologists as a very primitive "peoples." By the way chief--Thanks for almost killing off the bison.
Residential schools. Damned if they didn't. Damned because they did. Yes Siree. Colonialists! Those horrid "culture erasers." (Such irony!) Okay: Every. Single. Indian kid should have been left in the bush. "Hunt/Fish/Massacre other tribes/Communicate with the "spirits." Smoke peyote in their "Sweat Lodges." Whatever. They tried to teach these kids. Verdict: Damned. If they hadn't? "They didn't care about the "Indigenous" kids." Bah. Should have left them in the forest; running around in their loincloths. Maybe they'd eventually be discovered/studied by anthropologists as a very primitive "peoples." By the way chief--Thanks for almost killing off the bison.