CANADA
The Canadian Jewish News
Avrum Rosenweig
There needs to be a concerted effort in Canada to write and teach the real history of native Canadians – in the public and private school systems, from the pulpits and at the crossroads of every small and large community.
As it stands, your average “Joe and Mary Canadian” is making no effort to discover the truth, and that’s a problem.
That means Canadians, by and large, aren’t entirely aware of who we are as a people, so our self-identity is limited. Yet when we punched the living crap out of native Canadian children in residential schools, the grimy mud and blood stains stayed on our shirts. They need to be cleaned.
The worst part of it is that those kids lying on the roadway as adults, crushed in more ways than one, can’t get up.
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