I’m of two minds on all this reaction. Everyone is reacting like they finally get it but it’s just the tip of the shit pile. The pile didn’t stop stuff is still happening CPS is still taking kids!! The Indian agents were still around in the 60’s and yeah by then it was harder then for them to be petty dictators but shit still happened. I remember as a kid hearing of one quietly removed because he was raping in a government owned vehicle. I don’t have any faith that he was changed. Kids are still dying, police are still refusing to take reports and people say oh no it couldn’t be because they are native. A young girl disappeared she had good grades was in the cadets was planning on going reg once she graduated. No one would take the report!! It’s been years she didn’t run away she took no money nothing. She’s one of the missing. Or the mother told that she couldn’t report her daughter missing “she’s probably out partying” she is part of the murdered. This shit is still happening a disaster in the 40’s the everyone in the area was helped by the government but then the Indian agents says to the reserve that aid was your settlement for the land. Years later the government says it was a deal. Was there more to the deal? Did the Indian agents steal the real settlement? Who knows who cares? All we hear is well it didn’t happen in my life and you know what we don’t care there’s no recourse for our grievances. The residential schools were closed in the 90’s. There’s a lot of people who still remember. Or the reserves still fighting for clean drinking water. Hell I’m still not sure if my grandmother’s first name was given to her by her parents or the school. Fun fact instead of dealing with having a large group with the same name they changed it. The attending medical personnel filled out and filed the paperwork for births. It was a great game to make the names funny. Not to mention the guy who died waiting in the er cause everyone thought he was drunk. This shit is still happening all over Canada today. And we get “oh no that was a long time ago, I didn’t have anything to do with treats or the treatment of natives. It’s not happening today”. Or the ever popular they just want money throw some more money on the problem. FFS where do you think the northern reserves learnt the dictatorship concept from. There was a power void and someone stepped in and did what he was taught. But as pointed out already the news cycle will turn to something else the next unmarked graves will get less news coverage the third will get even less until it’s just a footnote story. And we will be back to people saying I don’t understand the natives get everything why are they so mad. How much more do they want we can’t just keep throwing money at them. Why don’t they just leave? And other unhelpful shit.

You do realize that many are too afraid to ask for help right? My niece asked for help they took the baby she was young and native. Funny how once he was in the system they said with his medical problems and feeding tube I need help and got it!!!! She did get him back but it was a fight. These stories are echoed everywhere and the moral of the story is always you will be crushed. Very few have happy endings. It’s frustrating to see that it was a surprise to so many

I’m of two minds on all this reaction. Everyone is reacting like they finally get it but it’s just the tip of the shit pile. The pile didn’t stop stuff is still happening CPS is still taking kids!! The Indian agents were still around in the 60’s and yeah by then it was harder then for them to be petty dictators but shit still happened. I remember as a kid hearing of one quietly removed because he was raping in a government owned vehicle. I don’t have any faith that he was changed. Kids are still dying, police are still refusing to take reports and people say oh no it couldn’t be because they are native. A young girl disappeared she had good grades was in the cadets was planning on going reg once she graduated. No one would take the report!! It’s been years she didn’t run away she took no money nothing. She’s one of the missing. Or the mother told that she couldn’t report her daughter missing “she’s probably out partying” she is part of the murdered. This shit is still happening a disaster in the 40’s the everyone in the area was helped by the government but then the Indian agents says to the reserve that aid was your settlement for the land. Years later the government says it was a deal. Was there more to the deal? Did the Indian agents steal the real settlement? Who knows who cares? All we hear is well it didn’t happen in my life and you know what we don’t care there’s no recourse for our grievances. The residential schools were closed in the 90’s. There’s a lot of people who still remember. Or the reserves still fighting for clean drinking water. Hell I’m still not sure if my grandmother’s first name was given to her by her parents or the school. Fun fact instead of dealing with having a large group with the same name they changed it. The attending medical personnel filled out and filed the paperwork for births. It was a great game to make the names funny. Not to mention the guy who died waiting in the er cause everyone thought he was drunk. This shit is still happening all over Canada today. And we get “oh no that was a long time ago, I didn’t have anything to do with treats or the treatment of natives. It’s not happening today”. Or the ever popular they just want money throw some more money on the problem. FFS where do you think the northern reserves learnt the dictatorship concept from. There was a power void and someone stepped in and did what he was taught. But as pointed out already the news cycle will turn to something else the next unmarked graves will get less news coverage the third will get even less until it’s just a footnote story. And we will be back to people saying I don’t understand the natives get everything why are they so mad. How much more do they want we can’t just keep throwing money at them. Why don’t they just leave? And other unhelpful shit.

You do realize that many are too afraid to ask for help right? My niece asked for help they took the baby she was young and native. Funny how once he was in the system they said with his medical problems and feeding tube I need help and got it!!!! She did get him back but it was a fight. These stories are echoed everywhere and the moral of the story is always you will be crushed. Very few have happy endings. It’s frustrating to see that it was a surprise to so many

If you go back to the origins of the Northwest Mounted Police, and later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; they were formed to oppress First Nations and destroy their culture for the Crown.

That seems to be what they continue to do.

Thanks for reading. They are all open secrets but unless you live it or close to it it’s hard to understand. It’s hard for me to realize that you don’t know the stories and don’t realize they were still happening today. So much has changed and yet nothing has changed. I just hope that these things don’t get forgotten or buried on the back page as more graves are found. Maybe people will start to understand why so many people are screaming mad and frustrated.

My friends runs a very big NGO family service agency run by and for natives (but not just for) and there's damn good reason for some kids to be taken off reserve.

If you go back to the origins of the Northwest Mounted Police, and later the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; they were formed to oppress First Nations and destroy their culture for the Crown.

-J.