Honoring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. 31 May 2015. “For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities in Canada. The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can best be described as ‘cultural genocide.'”
May 31, 2015
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Honoring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
May 31, 2015 Filed Under: Children, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Genocide, Sexual Abuse/Assault/Harassment Tagged With: 1969 statement on indian policy ("white paper"), 1996 report of the royal commission on aboriginal peoples, aboriginal rights and treaties, amy goodman, biological genocide, canada truth and reconciliation commission chair justice murray sinclair, canada's first prime minister sir john a. macdonald, canadian treaties with first nations, cultural genocide, indian residential schools settlement agreement of 2007, juan gonzález, pamela palmater, physical genocide, residential schools in canada administered by roman catholic and protestant churches (anglican & united & methodist & presbyterian), united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples