The total number of children found buried under Canadian Residential Assimilation Institution is now 7310 if anyone still cares #RIP #7310
Mi'kma'ki & Sikniktuk & Turtle Island Aknutmaqn
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Mi'kma'ki & Sikniktuk & Turtle Island Aknutmaqn
@GilbertP4341
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- 💔💔💔 Just in case anyone forgot about it. On Tuesday Williams Lake First Nation announced the findings of their investigation at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. What they shared was a lot more than a number of children’s bodies found by ground radar. It includes
- 🙏🏽 Frank Young still hasn’t come home … 😞 Frank was reported missing on April 19. He was playing in the front yard of his home on Red Earth Cree Nation. He was wearing Paw Patrol boots, blue pyjamas with green dinosaurs and a navy blue windbreaker.
- Trees smell like Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach Earth. That’s why trees smell so beautiful and old.
- Replying to @GilbertP4341parents after they killed their child …these are some of the things they shared. Not just the number of 93 bodies in the ground, but a story of the suffering they endured. Who can even begin to imagine our children being tortured this way?!? It’s horrifying, disgusting,
- Replying to @GilbertP4341unbelievable BUT IT HAPPENED!! And somehow the world isn’t talking about it.
- Replying to @GilbertP4341evidence of other ways bodies were disposed of never to be found. Ever. Evidence of what our people have known all along. Some of the evidence shared: -rape was a common every day occurrence -priests and staff raped the children and got them pregnant -newborn babies were
- Replying to @GilbertP4341thrown into the incinerator -children’s bodies were thrown into the incinerator -children’s bodies were thrown into the river -children were forced to eat rotting food, sleep in bed bugs, live among rodents, consume contaminated water, live with untreated head lice/infections/
- Replying to @GilbertP4341diseases -some children died by Suicide (the one referenced was 8 yrs old) -children were routinely beaten for speaking their language and other “reasons” -authorities said there was no need to investigate because the child was “just an Indian” -they never bothered to tell the
- For future reference, December 28, 2023; fresh fiddleheads popping up. Photo by Katie Noyes
- This is your yearly reminder NOT to dress like this for Halloween!!!!!
- Replying to @GilbertP4341Just in case anyone wants to donate to the cause. Let's raise millions for these survivors that had endured this cultural genocide in Canada. give.umanitoba.ca/national-centr… #NCTR
- I acknowledge and recognize that New Brunswick is situated in the unceded and traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Passamaquoddy. The territory is unceded; and the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed in 1725, 1726, 1752, 1760and 1778 were not for the surrender
- A video capturing Mark MacKenzie cutting Indigenous lobster traps around St.Marys Bay. @DFO_MAR @RCMPNS @DiLebouthillier This is what racism looks like in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada #WeAreAllTreatyPeople
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