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abqtommy

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Sun Apr 19, 2020, 08:19 AM Apr 2020

From the CBC/Canada Broadcasting Corporation: Correcting the history of Residential Schools.

'Pushed out and silenced: How one doctor was punished for speaking out about residential schools(.)

Cindy Blackstock was searching for allies in the history books. She was hoping to find someone who spoke out about residential schools, about the high death rate of students, the maltreatment of Indigenous children, and the inequalities.

While reading A National Crime by historian John Milloy, Blackstock came across the work of Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce. That's when she thought to herself, "That's the example. There's the person who was of that time, who knew better, who stood up for these kids and did everything in his power to make sure that they wouldn't die."

Bryce spoke out about the treatment of children at Indian Residential Schools back in 1907, but he was silenced by the Canadian government.

Blackstock, who is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, has been working to restore his legacy.'

more at link:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/exploring-the-past-finding-connections-in-little-known-indigenous-history-1.5531914/pushed-out-and-silenced-how-one-doctor-was-punished-for-speaking-out-about-residential-schools-1.5534953

I admire people who bring us the truth about history. We can't have too much of that...

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