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Indian Residential School-Apology by PM Stephen Harper-Pt.1

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Formal Apology to Residential School Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a historic apology for more than a century of abuse and cultural loss involving Indian residential schools.The Prime Minister acknowledged the government's role in removing and isolating children from their homes, families and culture.Speaking in the House of Commons Harper acknowledged, "The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter of our history," "Some sought, as was infamously said, to kill the Indian in the child."Harper continued, "This policy was wrong, caused great harm and has no place in our country,"Residential school survivors from across Canada -- many wearing traditional clothing -- filled the House of Commons, which postponed other business for the day, to hear the Government of Canada's official apology, which began at 3 o'clock.Close to 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and M�tis children were removed from their communities throughout most of the last century and forced to attend residential schools.Sean Connolly

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Uploaded: June 12, 2008 at 2:12 am
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ndngiver80 (October 10, 2008 at 8:17 pm)
REVENGE IS OURS... ...UNITE!!!
MegaMaloneMT (October 9, 2008 at 5:16 pm)
first off look up sum of ur ancestors history its good to kno and yes unfortunatly the same shit is still happening but ppl need to start speaking out and bigger action needs to b made the issue is bigger than money and with the apology we can start making movement in the rite direction
Redimark123456 (October 8, 2008 at 10:14 pm)
Sorry isnt going give back our Lanuage,it wont give back anything at all.....
bignbeautiful18 (October 1, 2008 at 1:29 pm)
holy crap, are they still allowed to call natives Indians? I'm not even a Native and it bothers me a lot...like.... Natives are not from India... I don't know.
NativeAmerican4Life (September 28, 2008 at 11:04 pm)
This gives great relief... Thanks Stephen :')
seacityslickr206 (September 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm)
i have much respect for my elders & in no way did i evr mean any d/r tward ne ov em. i do know 'some' of our past but not 'all' nor do i intend to find out. its in the past its buried like my ancestors & like them i let it be. the same stuff is happening now as it has in the past but in different ways. alws has alws will its in they blood they dont know any better. i was just sayin at least they gettin something.
MegaMaloneMT (September 23, 2008 at 5:01 pm)
buddy thats not the point they can give us all the money they want and apologize all they want but that doesn't change the fact that for years are ancestors were beaten raped and deprived of all their culture. now and apology n money are a small start but no real changes are being made and the elders will never be totally satisfied because they witnessed it we don't kno the actual horror they saw. i thought if u claim 2b native u would 2kno to have sum respect for wat they went through.
seacityslickr206 (September 22, 2008 at 3:47 am)
i love all white mans inventions esp. cheese balls & blenders. omg what on earth would i do w/o my trusty handy dandy jeff foxworthy & president hairy bush. @ leas natives cross tha border are gettin somethin, an apology, checks (for the cnds who cannot read AMERICAN: "CHEQUES"), & east indians to blend in w/. shoot alls we state side natives have are...well...hmmm...oh yeah wait no...ummmm...wait i know i know...uhhh...treaties...uh no thas not it ... jezuits ... no umm oh yaaaaaahh yes "SPAM"!
seacityslickr206 (September 22, 2008 at 3:23 am)
survivors is what we are & wether or not if we became 'civilized' or not we still would manage in a 'teepee' or whatever we can find. at least we wouldnt be screwing our animals to keep warm like most barn yard hiks if it wasnt for whity we would be the dominant race on North Amer. not baby killing kid raping murderers disease ignorance & stereotyping ya thanks alot apology accepted from a member of a so called invisible race back to my peas pipe an bottla jyack idiots
punctualbird (September 20, 2008 at 12:22 am)
Furthermore, conventional armies can't defeat terrorist groups. Terrorists blend in with civilians. That's how they pulled off 911. The way to fight terrorism is by infiltrating their ranks with secret agents, espionage, sabotage, interception, and intelligence. We can also reduce extremism through the Peace Corps, and also amending the constitution to cover foreign policy with more sensitivity.

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