Revisionist History

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/09/20/alberta-course-asked-students-about-positives-of-residential-schools_a_23534319/

The purpose of the residential schools was to provide education to the natives so that they could become useful citizens of Canada, as envisioned by the early politicians. This was at a time when you could shoot a native without danger of any charges, at least in the area I grew up in. 

I recall a time that I went for a beer with my brother-in-law, not long after he had been in a traffic accident on a dusty road in Saskatchewan, where two Indians had died. He was greeted with something like: Gerald, I hear you killed two Indians, let me buy you a beer...

I will remind you all that the residential schools were not just for natives; but also the whites from small places where there were no schools available. I was fortune enough to have been dropped on the earth in a area where there were schools, but remote enough that some more remote children were billeted around, and went to school with us. It was a public school, not religious school. I got to know about residential schools from the stories that some told of a few years of religious residential schools, near the end of residential schools.

It was a desperate time and area, life was not easy. We had no power, phones; Heat was wood and some coal at night, when it was real cold. Father would buy a rail car of coal, and sell most of it off. We would keep about 4 pickup loads for the winter. Anyway...

Those were different times, and the was much discussion about the native problems, should we just let them die off, or should we help them, and how should we help. Education was seen as the long term solution. There was not many of them, unlike now. They have reproduced at a much higher rate than we whites. The US history says they tried to make slaves out of theirs; but that had not worked. As a culture they would rather die than work; they were considered to be worthless. That was the common opinion where and when I was raised. I do not hold that blanket opinion now, but I recognize that time management and mathematics are not part of their culture. Many think that they are special because they are native, and we took their land. We may have, but it was from their ancestors, and they became a concurred race. Get over it and figure out how to live in today's society, or live on your reserves as your forefathers did, where 50 years of age was old, and life was cruel, brutish and short. That is reality, not revisionist.

Well now you want reconciliation, and revisionism. Get over it, we the existing population, will never accept that. You will need for us to die off first. Same with immigration. It is all too much. Change can only happen so fast, and the world is over populated already. Stop reproducing for growth, only replacement can occur.