215 & Counting: More Than Meets The Eye
(Above photo source: Ben Nelms, CBC, taken at Vancouver Art Gallery: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/returning-childrens-remains-b-c-1.6045807 ) ________________________ 215. Children. Some as young as 3 years old. Undocumented deaths. “Missing” children. Prior to this discovery, the number DOCUMENTED deaths in Canadian residential schools was already estimated to be 4,000. How many more are undocumented? We will never know. These are the dark secrets that lie beneath our feet. These CHILDREN died far from home, alone, and their families were rarely informed of their death at all. These deaths were due to illness, malnutrition, and abuse. All in the name of “education” and “taming”. While the government certainly played a key role here, it is undeniable that religion was at the heart of it. Like it is in so many atrocities. How many communities and cultures throughout this entire world were suppressed and ultimately destroyed “in the name of god...