How is genocide defined, with an emphasis on cultural genocide?

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@Martin_Hyde

If it was in the late 70s when I think the last of these ceased operations, that would raise a lot of questions. If it was in the 1890s, somewhat less.

No, you don’t get to play the “oh oh it was a long time ago, let’s not make a fuss now” card.

Yes, many of the deaths of children no doubt occurred many years ago. But we are just NOW paying proper attention to actually what went on and why. It has been hushed up and forgotten for too long. We can’t just brush it away again because it happened in the past.

As was posted in the MPSIMS thread:

@elbows

“It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness, by habitating so closely in these schools, and they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone, does not justify a change in the policy of this department, which is being geared towards the final solution of our Indian problem.

It is quite within the mark to say that 50% of the children who passed through these schools did not live to benefit from the education they received therein.”

Duncan Campbell Scott
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs
1913-1932

To emphasize “the final solution of our Indian problem” Kind of paints the picture, I think. What the Government did as policy and the churches enacted with cruelty is not taught. It should be. For decades, this has been ignored. It should not be ignored or excused any longer.