Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Intergenerational Impacts of Residential Schools or Foster Care?

"We are the generations who are suffering the legacy of colonization: residential schools, over-representation in youth & adult correctional facilities, exploited in sex trafficking, afflicted with addictions, Hep C & HIV. When residential schools were closed down, foster care became the place to hide stolen children … thousands & thousands of First Nations & Metis girls & boys have been raped, maltreated, had their ancestral history & spirit beaten out of them under the contracted ‘care of the Crown’.”