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Swept under the rug, Colonial History
ÀÌÁöÀÌ °­³²Æ÷½ºÆ® Çлý±âÀÚ | ½ÂÀÎ 2021.06.16 22:34

Ah, Canada, the most peaceful country, is known for its timber and maple syrup. Going to Canada is on the bucket list for quite a number of people. As the beauty of nature surrounds you, you feel at ease and relax under the warm embrace of the sun, blissfully unaware of the violence and racism.

Canada by no means is a place of peace. The oppression and violence within have been ignored, stating “it is not as bad as the states” when in truth, both are equally repulsive and horrid. Canada has been covering up their colonial history and has swept it under the rug for a very long time. However, this May, 215 remains of indigenous children were found at the former Kamloops residential school. This has sparked outrage globally, finally getting attention and spreading awareness.

For those who are confused, the colonials took more than 150,000 indigenous children from 1863 to 1998 and placed them in schools(1). Those schools are the residential schools that horrify us today. Many of these schools oppressed their culture and language, thinking they could “take the savageness” away. According to the Missing Children Project, a project that documents the deaths of indigenous children in residential schools, there are more than 4,100 children who died while attending the school(2). Although the Canadian government did apologize for the system, it barely contributes to societal oppression and racism. The Canadian government and education system still does not teach this part of history. They have and are still continuing the spread of their sugar-coated and cherry-picked stories.

According to a report published by the Canadian government, indigenous people take up 30 percent of people in prison(3). “On this trajectory, the pace is now set for Indigenous people to comprise 33% of the total federal inmate population in the next three years.  Over the longer term, and for the better part of three decades now, despite findings of Royal Commissions and National Inquiries, the intervention of the courts, promises, and commitments of previous and current political leaders, no government of any stripe has managed to reverse the trend of Indigenous over-representation in Canadian jails and prisons. The indigenisation of Canada’s prison population is nothing short of a national travesty,” Dr. Zinger stated in that same report.

Colonial history is nothing to be proud of, but it should not be swept under the rug and hidden from the rest of the world. The victims of this event would forever have this branded in their minds; it would be unfair for the rest of the world to forget and ignore it. Admitting mistakes, owning up to them, and making amendments are the first steps of reconciliation.


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1) Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Website. (2015). Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future: Summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
2) Published for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by McGill-Queen's University Press. (2016). Canada's residential schools: the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
3) Government of Canada, O. of the C. I. (2020, January 21). Indigenous People in Federal Custody Surpasses 30% - Correctional Investigator Issues Statement and Challenge - Office of the Correctional Investigator. https://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/cnt/comm/press/press20200121-eng.aspx.

 

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