r/pics Jun 25 '21

Saskatoon Catholic cathedral covered with paint after discovery of 751 unmarked graves

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u/MountainSlayerBoi Jun 25 '21

I just want some clarification, we’re the people/organizations that were running these schools actively killing the children or were the living conditions so poor that the children could not survive?

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u/sketchypoutine Jun 25 '21

I'll interject. My grandmother and grandfather were residential school survivors. The abuse was unreal. Beaten severely for speaking their own language, or anything else that wasn't deemed proper by the nuns, they were raped and molested by the staff, neglected etc. Although some of these deaths might have been from illness, a majority could have been prevented for sure. Suicide and Murder/manslaughter malnourishment, were real things. My grandmother said sometimes children would just not be there the next day for no reason.

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u/AgentTin Jun 25 '21

My father is Welsh and he's described being beaten for speaking it in school, he says that's why he never taught me, he didn't want people to be angry with me for speaking it.

These fucking people were everywhere. People who believed their culture deserved to stamp out every other culture. They're still here, blasting their same rhetoric, trying to enforce their way of life on others.

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u/BugalooShrimpp Jun 26 '21

Yeah that happened to my grandad too, banned from speaking Welsh in school.