[Biblical_Christian]

There have been stories of the pain of CHILDREN forced to leave their families and home villages.
There have been stories of horrible abuse.
There have also been stories of the schools as places of refuge and learning.
There have been stories that make it clear that, at times, the welfare of the children at the schools was not the primary concern.

International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) made it into the Canadian Criminal Code. The following parts of Article Two, which define the crime of genocide, were omitted when the Convention was ratified and became law in 1952: "Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" and, "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, director of the Department of Native Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, says that the omissions are not a coincidence. The original two omissions correspond directly to Canada's official policy of ABDUCTING Native CHILDREN and keeping them in residential schools, where many were subject to gruesome and WELL-DOCUMENTED abuse and torture.Savages? Us? Absolutely NOT! We are not the Lowest of the Low, never have and never will.

[CDNBear]

Were we savages?

Non.

Were we capable of great savagery?

Yes.

As is any group with the thought of righteousness in their mind, can be.