Residential Schools in Canada

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
H

Hungry

Banned
#1
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#1
Has anyone seen what is going on in Canada. Native American (North American Indians) children were pulled out of their homes from the 1800s until the 1980s by the Catholic Church. They were given new names, and released into society. This way they didn’t receive their privileges from the treaty. Many were tortured and killed. They have recently uncovered mass graves of thousands of children. Only three schools out of hundreds have been investigated so far. Absolute genocide.
 
K

kaylagrl

Guest
#2
#2
Hungry said:
Has anyone seen what is going on in Canada. Native American (North American Indians) children were pulled out of their homes from the 1800s until the 1980s by the Catholic Church. They were given new names, and released into society. This way they didn’t receive their privileges from the treaty. Many were tortured and killed. They have recently uncovered mass graves of thousands of children. Only three schools out of hundreds have been investigated so far. Absolute genocide.
Click to expand...

Yeah, saw it all over my FB yesterday with everyone saying Canadians shouldn't be celebrating their special day. smh So annoying, Trudeau trying to shadow the US. Sad what happened, long time ago, not happening today. Move on.
 
G

gb9

Senior Member
#3
Jan 18, 2011
12,320
6,690
113
#3
meanwhile, much of canada is still under covid lockdowns...
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#4
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#4
It’s happened within last 40 years. Not exactly ancient history. I’m just curious about the Catholics reaction. How much more evidence will it take to open the eyes of the masses to see that the Catholic Church and the pope do not represent Christianity.
 
K

kaylagrl

Guest
#5
#5
Hungry said:
It’s happened within last 40 years. Not exactly ancient history. I’m just curious about the Catholics reaction. How much more evidence will it take to open the eyes of the masses to see that the Catholic Church and the pope do not represent Christianity.
Click to expand...
What exactly has happened within the last 40yrs. ?
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#6
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#6
kaylagrl said:
What exactly has happened within the last 40yrs. ?
Click to expand...
The last residential school that was responsible for kidnapping, torturing and killing native children was closed in 1996, in Saskatchewan. These schools were ran by the Catholic Church.
 
Nehemiah6

Nehemiah6

Senior Member
#7
Jul 18, 2017
26,074
13,776
113
#7
gb9 said:
meanwhile, much of canada is still under covid lockdowns...
Click to expand...
True. All the politicians and judges in Canada have decided that it's time to imitate Communist China. The lockdowns are just an excuse to impose tyranny on a free country. And hardly anyone in Canada is standing up for freedom.

At the same time no one stopped the toppling of the statues of Queen Victoria and Captain Cook (and others). So the Feds have become as Woke as Biden and his gang of thugs. What we are seeing right now is the Bolshevik Revolution being supported by the very people who should be opposing it with all their might.
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#8
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#8
Nehemiah6 said:
True. All the politicians and judges in Canada have decided that it's time to imitate Communist China. The lockdowns are just an excuse to impose tyranny on a free country. And hardly anyone in Canada is standing up for freedom.

At the same time no one stopped the toppling of the statues of Queen Victoria and Captain Cook (and others). So the Feds have become as Woke as Biden and his gang of thugs. What we are seeing right now is the Bolshevik Revolution being supported by the very people who should be opposing it with all their might.
Click to expand...
Who knows how ugly this could get? I think the Native Canadians have been waiting for a cause such as this to rise up. If they decide to start a war, it won’t end well for a number of mild mannered unprepared locals are caught in the wrong place with the wrong colour of skin.
 
K

kaylagrl

Guest
#9
#9
Hungry said:
The last residential school that was responsible for kidnapping, torturing and killing native children was closed in 1996, in Saskatchewan. These schools were ran by the Catholic Church.
Click to expand...
Then the guilt lies with whoever allowed that to happen. Nothing for the country to be ashamed of, so ashamed they can't celebrate Canada day. That's nonsense.
 
K

kaylagrl

Guest
#10
#10
Hungry said:
Who knows how ugly this could get? I think the Native Canadians have been waiting for a cause such as this to rise up. If they decide to start a war, it won’t end well for a number of mild mannered unprepared locals are caught in the wrong place with the wrong colour of skin.
Click to expand...
Well, if they rise up and start a war that's nonsense. Go to court, deal with it there.
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#11
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#11
I agree that going to court is the “Canadian” way to handle it. If the government and church targeted my family for a century and deliberately attempted to wipe us out and strip us of our heritage and beliefs through torture and genocide, I wouldn’t feel very “Canadian”. Regardless, they are armed and angry. I don’t think a public apology and a lump sum of restitution quite heals the hurt.
 
K

kaylagrl

Guest
#12
#12
Hungry said:
I agree that going to court is the “Canadian” way to handle it. If the government and church targeted my family for a century and deliberately attempted to wipe us out and strip us of our heritage and beliefs through torture and genocide, I wouldn’t feel very “Canadian”. Regardless, they are armed and angry. I don’t think a public apology and a lump sum of restitution quite heals the hurt.
Click to expand...
So murder and destruction "heal the hurt"? The past is the past. Go to court, best solution. Though I though you said it was the Catholic church, not the gov't. Either way, you don't punish people who had nothing to do with it.
 
Lanolin

Lanolin

Well-known member
#13
Dec 15, 2018
23,460
7,188
113
#13
kaylagrl said:
Then the guilt lies with whoever allowed that to happen. Nothing for the country to be ashamed of, so ashamed they can't celebrate Canada day. That's nonsense.
Click to expand...
I dont know if it was the govt or the catholic church in this case
But I would say many people would hage qualms celebrating something that has destroyed its own people.
 
Dino246

Dino246

Senior Member
#14
Jun 30, 2015
25,472
13,785
113
#14
Hungry said:
Has anyone seen what is going on in Canada. Native American (North American Indians) children were pulled out of their homes from the 1800s until the 1980s by the Catholic Church. They were given new names, and released into society. This way they didn’t receive their privileges from the treaty. Many were tortured and killed. They have recently uncovered mass graves of thousands of children. Only three schools out of hundreds have been investigated so far. Absolute genocide.
Click to expand...
It goes deeper than that, and it wasn't just the Catholic "church" that was involved. The federal government was complicit, and actively participated in setting up the schools, enforcing enrollment (at the point of a gun, in many cases), and hiding the evidence of corruption and mistreatment. The Anglican church was also involved, as were other groups.

"Thousands" is an exaggeration. There were 751 unmarked graves at Cowesses, SK, and 215 near Kamloops, BC. Not all were children.

There is ongoing research to locate additional sites and to identify the dead. The facts are bad enough; let's not be spreading misinformation about this.
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#15
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#15
Dino246 said:
It goes deeper than that, and it wasn't just the Catholic "church" that was involved. The federal government was complicit, and actively participated in setting up the schools, enforcing enrollment (at the point of a gun, in many cases), and hiding the evidence of corruption and mistreatment. The Anglican church was also involved, as were other groups.

"Thousands" is an exaggeration. There were 751 unmarked graves at Cowesses, SK, and 215 near Kamloops, BC. Not all were children.

There is ongoing research to locate additional sites and to identify the dead. The facts are bad enough; let's not be spreading misinformation about this.
Click to expand...
There are almost 140 schools. Those are the bodies found at the first three they investigated. Thousands will be accurate.
 
Dino246

Dino246

Senior Member
#16
Jun 30, 2015
25,472
13,785
113
#16
Hungry said:
There are almost 140 schools. Those are the bodies found at the first three they investigated. Thousands will be accurate.
Click to expand...
I agree... we have inherited a horrible legacy, and the only way to deal with it is in Christ. The trouble is, people (and government) will try many other ways, and do more damage.
 
H

Hungry

Banned
#17
Nov 26, 2012
3,095
1,050
113
#17
Dino246 said:
I agree... we have inherited a horrible legacy, and the only way to deal with it is in Christ. The trouble is, people (and government) will try many other ways, and do more damage.
Click to expand...
I didn’t realize you were Canadian. I think there’s been enough pain and bloodshed. I pray this will be resolved peaceably.
 
Dude653

Dude653

Senior Member
#18
Mar 19, 2011
12,688
1,102
113
#18
So far eight cathedrals have been burned in canada. This is in response to the mass murder of over 700 children which the Canadian Church tried to cover up. The Canadians are not having it
 
Nehemiah6

Nehemiah6

Senior Member
#19
Jul 18, 2017
26,074
13,776
113
#19
kaylagrl said:
Then the guilt lies with whoever allowed that to happen. Nothing for the country to be ashamed of, so ashamed they can't celebrate Canada day. That's nonsense.
Click to expand...
Well Canada Day and the 4th of July in the states are now "history". They mean nothing to the Communists controlling North America.

The problem is that when the conservative Reform Party under Harper had a golden opportunity to really and truly y address the plight of Native Canadians they did absolutely nothing concrete. That would have included the issue of children in Catholic and Anglican schools and what happened (both positive and negative).

Each and every treaty should have been reviewed, the Indian Act should have been revised or abolished, new treaties should have been drawn up and an effort made to stop Indians from continuing to be wards of the Federal Government. Yet not a single federal government over the last 50-70 years has bothered to do anything substantial.

It is significant that even though the issue of mistreatment of Indian children has been around for decades, it happens to have popped up just now out of the blue (so to speak). Which means that there may be some foreign powers or individuals seeking to create racial tensions in Canada as they did in America last year.

The burning down of so many churches and the toppling of significant statues means that there is a Marxist/Communist agenda being promoted from outside. The fact that feckless Communist Justin Trudeau is running (ruining?) Canada at this time also has a bearing on this matter. But it all goes back to negligence on the part of "conservatives" who were as self-seeking as the Liberals. And now there is no conservative party just like the RINOs are basically useless.
 
Dude653

Dude653

Senior Member
#20
Mar 19, 2011
12,688
1,102
113
#20
Same organization that protects child molesters. I think it's time the world started fighting back
 
You must log in or register to reply here.