Residential School Excavation

[jazz]

Indoctrination comes in many forms blaithin. Some are insidious but easily identified with a little work. Whats being taught in schools is verging far into that slippery slope. You should know that after what went down the past few years.

My kids are taught more native stuff than they ever do about their own culture. They are guilted into the residential school debacle when none were even alive when the last one was close. My kids get a monthly visit from a native knowledge keeper who tells them how the world works. My wife and my own culture are not even spoke about in any manner.

They run a pride flag and a Treaty 4 flag up the pole every year and make the kids stand outside and make some sort of pledge to it all.

You were taking cultural genocide the other day. My bet is you dont have kids.

[Blaithin]

Indoctrination comes in many forms blaithin. Some are insidious but easily identified with a little work. Whats being taught in schools is verging far into that slippery slope. You should know that after what went down the past few years.

My kids are taught more native stuff than they ever do about their own culture. They are guilted into the residential school debacle when none were even alive when the last one was close. My kids get a monthly visit from a native knowledge keeper who tells them how the world works. My wife and my own culture are not even spoke about in any manner.

They run a pride flag and a Treaty 4 flag up the pole every year and make the kids stand outside and make some sort of pledge to it all.

You were taking cultural genocide the other day. My bet is you dont have kids.

Do you not teach your kids about your own culture?

Why do they need to learn that in school? They have you to teach them. Who can teach them about the history of Canada and Natives? Certainly not most people, they’ve never learnt it and would struggle to differentiate between NWC and HBC. Most immigrants will know more about Canadian history than Canadians IME.

Teaching kids other cultures is not cultural genocide. Making it illegal for them to learn and have their own, is. It is not illegal for you to teach your children your culture/language/religion. You can dislike what they’re taught as much as you want, doesn’t mean they aren’t allowed to learn other things.

[blackpowder]

My two cents.
A little envious of jurisdictions that teach the national geography and civics.
Without that grounding in unity the focus becomes on factions. One Constitution, one government, one flag, one country.
Seems that flew out the window decades ago.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Do you not teach your kids about your own culture?

Why do they need to learn that in school? They have you to teach them. Who can teach them about the history of Canada and Natives? Certainly not most people, they’ve never learnt it and would struggle to differentiate between NWC and HBC. Most immigrants will know more about Canadian history than Canadians IME.

Teaching kids other cultures is not cultural genocide. Making it illegal for them to learn and have their own, is. It is not illegal for you to teach your children your culture/language/religion. You can dislike what they’re taught as much as you want, doesn’t mean they aren’t allowed to learn other things.

I'm on the same page as you with this.
My comparison above was somewhat tongue in cheek.
The biggest differentiation being that my kids can come home at the end of the day and ask for a second opinion on whether men can have babies. The first nation kid in a residential school had no access to parents or elders to ask if they were really going to burn in hell for eternity if they don't worship the right gods and speak the right language.

We strongly urge our kids to make their own opinions. My political or religious opinions, or their teachers, or grandparents, youtube bloggers etc are not theirs, they go out in the world, digest all these different perspectives and develop their own. But no matter what, parents influence dominates. The first nations children completely lost that influence at an influential age.