You may or may not already be aware of the horrific news that was broadcast nationwide recently here in Canada regarding a tragic discovery.
The remains of 215 children with some ranging as young as three years old were found. They were children from a residential school called The Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Colombia.
Starting in the 19th century up until the 1970s, here in Canada, Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to live in residential schools run by the Catholic church.
The Catholic church at the time believed that Indigenous people's needed to be assimilated into the Christian faith. So they were striped of their own beliefs and culture in its entirety.
In the residential schools (because they were all over Canada), the children were forced to stop speaking their native languages and were severely abused whenever caught speaking in their language.
The children would experience an array of atrocious abuses in every manner imaginable. If they blinked in the wrong way it was excuse enough for the nuns and priests to attack them with abuses: Mentally, emotionally, psychologically, verbally, spiritually, intellectually, physically, ethnically, and in just about any other way that a human being can be violated. Their very identity as human beings was stripped of them it was that horrendous. It is very accurate to say that the children were left as empty shells.
If you'd like to learn more about the history between the Indigenous people's of Canada and the Roman Catholic church, I invite you to do your own research. And by the way, Indigenous people's of Canada are still being referred to today as Indian when this is actually a very derogatory term.
'Indian' is NOT the proper term for how to address Indigenous peoples of Canada - nor, is it for the Indigenous peoples of the U.S.. This too applies to South America where I'm from (Ecuador) as well as in Central America.
All indigenous persons from the Americas are misidentified by this term when they all have genuine identities for which they do go by
For example, I have very strong blood in me by an Indigenous peoples called Quechua. Pronounced Keh-chua. And although I do not speak the language, it is called Kichwa. (I speak Spanish.)
Lastly, based on the size of the area of where the children were found, it is said that possibly even more children are still to be discovered. In one article that I read, it stated how as many as 6000 might be buried in the area in total.
I'm Roman Catholic. God will be dealing with every soul and organization who grossly misrepresented WHO He was while here on the earth by operating outside of His character. The Indigenous peoples hate God because of the way in which He was portrayed at the hands of priests and nuns who had the devil tightly rooted on the inside of them while "doing" God's work.
PLEASE PRAY for the healing of the Indigenous people's of Canada who have yet again received an unimaginable blow.
NANCY
To see photos of the school where the little children were living in, visit the site in the link below.
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