![]() To prevent the indigenous from going extinct, it was necessary to “turn them into white people.” ![]() Terry’s argument is that it was not the policy of the Oblates of Marry Immaculate or of the Catholic Church to harm the indigenous or commit “cultural genocide.” However, according to Terry, the federal project was cultural genocide. ![]() Once in Canada, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate were charged with the operations of many IRS. Emerging from the Great Terror of France, they ended up in the United States where they were driven North after being accused of siding with the indigenous. Terry also provides a summary of their background. They had intended to protect the indigenous from the “corrupting influences of bourgeois culture,” while at the same time giving them an education that would assist their survival in a modern world. Their goal was not to kill the Indian in the child, it was the opposite. The six areas are 1) The Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2) Terry’s claim that cultural genocide was a federal project 3) Chief Casimir (and other indigenous leaders who were not discussed) 4) Terry’s comments about intergenerational trauma 5) The mortality rate from disease at IRS 6) The rebranding of Canada as an oppressive white supremacist colonial state.Īccording to Terry, over half of all IRSs were run by Catholic groups, with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in charge of the majority. Below, I highlight six areas Terry and Jonathan discuss and, in some cases offer additional sources and commentary I hope will contribute to the discourse. I highly recommend that you stop reading this immediately and go listen to their 42-minute talk. This was a great discussion and a breath of fresh air. Today, I am responding to Jonathan Kay’s interview with Terry Glavin which was posted to Quillette on Aug 3rd. A few Canadians may have even noticed a new term denialist being cast at anyone who questioned why? Or wondered why an RCMP investigation into suspected unmarked graves in Kamloops, and excavations performed to verify the ground penetrating radar readings that started the whole debacle, were never initiated. No actual remains of children had been unearthed in the year that passed since the story initially broke in Kamloops, B.C. Like, really wrong! From this point on things have become interesting as truth has stubbornly poked its head out here and there, only to be pushed back down by activists masquerading as academics or journalists, charging anyone who deviates from the status quo as a denialist.įor many Canadians, Terry’s National Post essay was the first time they learned that claims involving the remains of 215 indigenous children had not been substantiated. 1) The pre-Glavin Consensus Stage, when media, politicians and much of the public where united in unquestioning acceptance of sensationalist claims of clandestine burials of murdered former indigenous students at Indian Residential School (IRS).Ģ) The post-Glavin Confusion Stage, which began when the National Post published veteran Canadian journalist Terry Glavin’s excellent Year Of The Graves exposé that detailed the multiple ways the media got it wrong.
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