Peter Bryce gets a mailbox prior to Day of Truth and Reconciliation
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Federal election has pushed the discoveries of residential school graves to the wayside, Indigenous leaders say
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By Yuezhi Zhao | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-29 09:09 Share CLOSE Photo taken on June 6, 2021 a staked child s dress is seen on the side of Hwy 5, placed there to represent an ongoing genocide against First Nations people in Canada, near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, where the remains of 215 children were discovered buried near the facility, in Kamloops. [Photo/Agencies]
More than halfway through the year, 2021 has truly provoked me to think about history and what it means to be a Chinese Canadian, especially the settler-colonial nature of the Canadian state and the moral high ground that Canadian politicians have assumed in critiquing the Chinese state.
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These deaths were the result of government policy, and our federal government was fully aware of what was happening. Starting in 1907, Dr. Peter Bryce, newly assigned to investigate First Nations’ health, found appalling conditions in the residential schools. He reported an average mortality rate of 24 per cent, and, in one school 75 per cent. He made it clear that the federal government was responsible.
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It took no action. Given that about 150,000 children attended residential schools, tens of thousands likely died that we may never know of.