catherine karelli has this. no pride in genocide! traditionally a day of celebration but this year, canada has found itself reckoning with its colonial past. cheering. this was the scene in winnipeg, demonstrators pulling down a statue of queen victoria. cheering. across canada, thousands of people took to the streets protesting a dark chapter of their country's history — the residential school system. they murdered thousands of children — hundreds of thousands of children — we don't know yet. but we are here to tell you today that that was wrong. you all know that it was wrong. we are here today to stand with everybody to oppose the ongoing genocide of the canadian government and state against indigenous peoples. between the 1870s and 1990s, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from theirfamilies. they were made to attend church—run boarding schools. there, they were forced to abandon their native
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