https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/opposition-parties-want-day-school-settlement-reopened-1.7138846
So APPARENTLY you can get money if youre a native who was forced to go to day school which as a racist colonizer you would think is literally just school.
BUT apparently no. Day schools, chud, were JUST as bad as residential schools, maybe worse because they had to cram 24 hours of oppression into just 8.
The government paid out like 6 BILLION dollars to the heya hoyas in an effort to put the matter to rest but they want to reopen the settlement because they spent all their money on smokes and lottery tickets already or smth.
Basically this means they will be able to keep the settlements open in perpetuity all the while launching new ones, on top of the other ever increasing funding they ask for.
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I wish we had like just killed them literally all like the Americans
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That's the future lesson for any future colonists (
), just wipe them out, which is completely fricked
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Or you could just stop kneecapping your society for the sake of assuaging white guilt instead of having to choose between extermination and future self-destruction
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too late, already making genocide plans
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The Indian act is the worst piece of legislation in the history of legislation, maybe ever.
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Tbh a bigger issue is that we are trapped by r-slurred proceduralism. We will follow the rules to a T even if it means full well knowing that we are totally fricking ourselves by doing so. Like the Indian Act, should have just torn it up when we had the chance and told the natives tough shit. Would have been better for us and them.
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It's that every single legal interpretation of the Indian Act ignores the historical context, and finds in favour of today's Indigenous groups.
It's how we've gotten into the ridiculous situation of "Indigenous" people (most of whom are of mostly European ancestry, at least in the east) being able to set their own rules regarding resource harvesting, gambling, sale (and taxation) of controlled substances to the general public, all the while not paying any federal taxes to money earned on Reserve, having access to vast benefits not available to other Canadians also having full access to the welfare state (healthcare etc), yet STILL playing victim and demanding more gibs.
Talking about this in public is anathema however. I've been banned from many subreddits for merely suggesting that there are multiple tiers of Canadian citizenship.
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It would be more humane than forcing them to live on rez tbh
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