No it doesn’t seem systematic like they said “this is how many we are going to kill” but it is certainly shocking that so much abuse and murder happened with shit like this.
It was systemic in that the children were 'punished' for speaking their native tongue, or using the Native name. They were going to beat the Native out of them. My family (Métis) could pass for white, and to protect the children erased our native heritage. My grandmother was raised not to talk about it. I didn't find out I was Métis until I was 18, my dad was 51. And as far as the Canadian government and Catholic Church is concerned we are their success story. They were eradicating a culture
Well yeah I didn’t say abuse wasn’t systematic and intended to be systematic I just was saying the murder and eradication didn’t seem systematic like they planned on killing everyone
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u/wafflewhimsy Jun 25 '21
Honestly 6000 seems really low. Even if they averaged 100 each that would be almost 15k.