| | Chronology of Events: Genocide in Canada
1857: The Gradual Civilization Act is passed by the Legislature of
Upper Canada. permanently disenfranchising all Indian and Metis
peoples. and placing them in a separate. inferior legal category than
citizens.
1874: The Indian Act is passed in Canada's Parliament. incorporating
the inferior social status of native people into its language and
provisions. Aboriginals are henceforth imprisoned on reserve lands and
are legal wards of the state.
1884: Legislation is passed in Ottawa creating a system of
state-funded. church administered Indian Residential Schools.
1905: Over one hundred residential schools are in existence across
Canada. 60% of them run by the Roman Catholics.
Medical Inspector for the Department of Indian
Affairs. tours the residential schools of western Canada and British
Columbia and writes a scathing report on the "criminal" health
conditions there. Bryce reports that native children are being
deliberately infected with diseases like tuberculosis. and are left to
die untreated. as a regular practice. He cites an average death rate
of 40% in the residential schools.
Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
suppresses Bryce's report and conducts a smear and cover-up campaign
regarding its findings. Bryce is expelled from the civil service.
1910: A joint agreement between the federal government and
the Roman Catholic. Presbyterian and Methodist churches
establishes the structure of Indian Residential Schools and the
contractual obligations of churches running them. Duncan Campbell
Scott refers to the policy of the government as that of seeking a
'final solution to the Indian Problem'.
1919: Despite an escalating death rate of Indian children in
residential schools from tuberculosis - in some cases as high as 75% -
Duncan Campbell Scott abolishes the post of Medical Inspector for
Indian residential schools. Within two years. deaths due to
tuberculosis have tripled in residential schools.
1920: Federal legislation makes it mandatory for every Indian child to
be sent to residential schools upon reaching seven years of age.
1928: Sexual Sterilization Act is passed in Alberta. allowing any
inmate of a native residential school to be sterilized upon the
approval of the school Principal. At least 3.500 Indian women are
sterilized under this law.
1933: An identical Sexual Sterilization Act is passed in British
Columbia. Two major sterilization centres are established by The
United Church of Canada on the west coast. in Bella Bella and Nanaimo.
in which thousands of native men and women are sterilized by
missionary doctors until the 1980's.
1933: Residential school Principals are made the legal guardians of
all native students. under the oversight of the federal Department of
Mines and Resources. Every native parent is forced by law to surrender
legal custody of their children to the Principal - a church employee -
or face imprisonment.
1938: Attempt by the federal government to close all residential
schools and incorporate Indian children into public schools is
defeated by pressure brought by Catholic and Protestant church
leaders.
1946: Project Paperclip - a CIA program utilizing ex-Nazi researchers
in medical. biological warfare and mind control experiments - uses
native children from Canadian residential schools as involuntary test
subjects. under agreements with the Catholic. Anglican and United
churches. These illegal tests continue until the 1970's.
1948 - 1969: Offshoot programs of Project Paperclip are established in
United Church and government hospitals in Nanaimo. Vancouver and Victoria. British Columbia; in Red
Deer and Ponoka. Alberta; and at the Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital in
Thunder Bay. Ontario. All of these programs use native children
abducted from reserves. and residential schools. with
the full knowledge of church. police and Indian Affairs officials.
1969: Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chretien tables his White Paper in
Parliament. which reaffirms the "assimilationist" policy of the past
century that denies sovereignty and equal status to native nations. As
a token gesture. Chretien assigns a limited control over Indian
education to local. state-funded band councils. Many residential
schools are phased out altogether or simply taken over by band
councils.
1990: State-funded leaders of the Assembly of First Nations discuss
'abuses' in residential schools for the first time publicly.
1994-95: Eyewitnesses to murders at the United Church's Alberni
residential school speak out publicly. from the pulpit of Reverend
Kevin Annett in Port Alberni. Annett is summarily fired without cause
within a month. and is expelled from United Church ministry without
due process during 1996.
1996: The first class action lawsuit of Alberni residential
school survivors is brought against the United Church of Canada and
the federal government. The church responds with a counter-suit and an
attempted 'gag order' on Kevin Annett. sterilisations and other
atrocities at coastal residential schools are documented by Kevin
Annett and native activists in public forums in Vancouver. The number
of lawsuits brought against the churches and government by residential
school survivors climbs to over 5. 1998: The first independent Tribunal into Canadian
residential schools is convened in Vancouver by IHRAAM (International
Human Rights Association of American Minorities). an affiliate of the
United Nations. Evidence is submitted by dozens of aboriginal
witnesses to crimes against humanity. The Tribunal concludes that the
government of Canada and the Catholic. United and Anglican churches
are guilty of complicity in Genocide. and recommends to the United
Nations that a War Crimes investigation be held.
1998-1999: Under strong pressure from the government of Canada. the
United Nations refuses to act on IHRAAM's recommendation. Further
evidence and reports of Genocide in residential schools is blacked out
of the mainstream media across Canada. A concerted smear and
misinformation campaign is launched by the United Church and the RCMP
against Kevin Annett and his network's efforts to document and expose
genocidal practices by church and state in Canada.
1998: The Vancouver Province reports the admission of United
Church lawyers that their church has engaged in a joint cover-up with
the federal government of crimes committed at its Alberni Indian
residential school since at least 1960.
1999: The New Internationalist magazine in Great Britain
reports the findings of the IHRAAM Tribunal. including the evidence of
murder in Canadian residential schools. but is subsequently threatened
and silenced by United Church and Canadian government lawyers.
2000: The number of lawsuits brought by residential school
survivors climbs to over 10.000. The federal government introduces
legislation limiting the number of such lawsuits. It also announces
that it will assume primary financial responsibility both for
residential school damages and the legal expenses of the churches
which ran the schools. despite the fact that Canadian courts have
ruled that the churches bear either a majority or an equal
responsibility for crimes at the schools.
2000: The federal Health Department admits that it used native
children from four residential schools. including Port Alberni. including the
deliberate denial of vitamins and dental care to them to study the
effects. (The Vancouver Sun. 2000: The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada is formed
in Vancouver by forty-eight native and non-native activists. with
Kevin Annett as its Secretary. Its mandate is to carry on the work of
the IHRAAM Tribunal. and bring charges of Genocide against churches.
the RCMP and the government of Canada.
2001: The Truth Commission publishes its six year study of
Genocide in Canada. 'Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust'. A
second edition is published in June. Efforts by the United Church to
legally prevent its publication fail.
September-October. 2001: Judicial decisions in British Columbia and
Manitoba deny the claims of residential school survivors that genocide
was practiced. absolve the churches of any direct responsibility for
damages. and block any future lawsuits from claims older than thirty
years. when most residential schools were closed more than thirty
years ago. (! 2001: New eyewitnesses come forward with first-hand evidence
that native children are being used in west coast pedophile rings
involving senior judges. church and aboriginal leaders.
One of these pedophile networks operates out of the prestigious
Vancouver Club.
2001 - The Roman Catholic Church discloses that it hired
a known and convicted sex offender and murderer. to work
as a dormitory supervisor at its Christie Indian Residential School in
Tofino. during the 1960's. Saxey subsequently raped
and terrorized children at this school without ever being reprimanded
or prosecuted.
2002 - The first television documentary featuring
eyewitnesses to murders in Canadian Indian Residential Schools is
broadcast in Vancouver. on CTV's "First Story" program. The show is
aired simultaneously in Winnipeg. and Halifax. Rev. Kevin
Annett and native survivors of genocide give their stories. On the
same program. United Church official Brian Thorpe admits for the first
time ...
Kramer - white people hold the gold medal for Holocasts but usualllyy
THE HOLOCAUST refers to Hitler's. Genocide is perpetrated by many
peoples. On the world stage. the Canadians are minor offenders
comparatively.
but you know that already. You already know that winners
write history. that's why you struggle so hard here to write the
history you want to believe.
"Enlightenment is when a person leaves behind a state of immaturity and
dependence (Unm'ndigkeit) for which they themselves were responsible.
Immaturity and dependence are the inability to use one's own intellect
without the direction of another. One is responsible for this
immaturity and dependence. if its cause is not a lack of intelligence
or education. but a lack of determination and courage to think without
the direction of another. Sapere aude! is therefore the
slogan of the Enlightenment."
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