Inuit 'School Survivor' Harold Cook Describes Abuse
By: IsumaTV
Posted: Aug 26 08
Witnessed: 598 times
Canada
Detention, Indigenous peoples, Sexual rights
aboriginal rights, canada, inuit, sexual abuse, truth and reconciliation
NorthWest Territories, Canada: Collective9 is a collection of unedited testimonies by Inuit residential school survivors recounting their own personal experiences. On June 11, 2008 Prime Minister Harper apologized on behalf of Canada for the government's role in the genocidal Residential School System. Beginning in 1874, 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Metis children in Canada were forcibly enrolled in Church-run boarding schools on behalf of the federal government in an effort to assimilate them into the colonizing society. Thousands of survivors speak of sexual and physical abuse, and even murder.
A TRUTH and RECONCILIATION COMMISSION, established by the government and headed by Canada's top aboriginal jurist, Harry Laforme, will probe the abuses of natives suffered at the schools over the next five years. This commission will not be bringing the perpetrators to justice and many survivors feel that the government is simply washing their hands of their responsibility with financial compensation and media antics.
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