How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada

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How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada

By Ian Austen
The New York Times

OTTAWA, Ontario — The announcement last month that the remains of 215
Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian
Residential School left the nation reeling.

Flags throughout Canada were put at half-staff and impromptu memorials
consisting of children’s moccasins or shoes, often marked with “215,”
have sprouted, including one in front of Canada’s Parliament building here.

“A lot of survivors, my relatives, they’ve been saying this for years
and years — that there was a lot of death, there’s a lot of unmarked
graves,” said Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First
Nations, the country’s largest Indigenous organization, referring to
children who were taken from their families and forced to attend
Canada’s notorious residential schools such as Kamloops to assimilate
into Western culture.

“But nobody ever believed the survivors,” he added. “And now with the
discovery of the grave site at Kamloops, it’s just horrific, it’s tragic
and it’s painful.”

An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children passed through the schools
between their opening, around 1883, and their closing in 1996. Since
taking office in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has prioritized
putting in place a list of 94 actions for commemorating the students and
improving the lives of Indigenous people. But Indigenous leaders believe
the government still has a long way to go.

The discovery of the graves has given new impetus to the nation’s debate
on how to atone for its history of exploiting Indigenous people. Many
are asking how so many children could have wound up in that burial space.

What has been discovered?

About 20 years ago, an effort to find remains started at the Kamloops
school, which operated from 1890 until the late 1970s, and was once
Canada’s largest, with 500 students at its peak. Members of the
Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation made last month’s grim discovery
after bringing in ground-penetrating radar.

Among the 215 bodies found by the radar, there appears to be one of a
child who died as young as 3, said Chief Rosanne Casimir of the
Tk’emlups te Secwepemc. All of the children were buried decades ago, she
said.

Casimir also said she anticipated that more remains would be discovered
as the ground is scanned further this month. The community is now
working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the coroner’s service
in British Columbia.

On Friday, Casimir said the bodies found so far appeared to be buried in
separate “unmarked burial sites that are, to our knowledge, also
undocumented.”

What was the residential school system?

In the late 19th century, Canada set aside land for Indigenous people
through often dubious treaties, while outright seizing Indigenous land
in some places, particularly in British Columbia.

Around 1883, the government added a new dimension to its exploitation of
Indigenous people. Indigenous children in many parts of Canada were
forced to attend residential schools, often far from their communities.
Most were operated by churches, and all of them banned the use of
Indigenous languages and Indigenous cultural practices, often through
violence. Disease and sexual, physical and emotional abuse were widespread.

The Kamloops school was operated by the Roman Catholic Church until
1969, when the federal government took over the school system. Reports
by an inspector and a doctor indicated that the students at Kamloops
were severely malnourished at times.

A National Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the Canadian
government spent six years hearing from 6,750 witnesses to document the
history of the schools. In a report in 2015, it concluded that the
system was a form of “cultural genocide.”

Some former students testified before the commission that priests at the
schools had fathered infants with Indigenous students and that the
babies had been taken away from their young mothers and killed, in some
cases their bodies thrown into furnaces.

Many students also died from disease, accidents, fires and fatal
attempts to escape, according to the commission.

Schools suffered mass deaths when infectious diseases swept through
them, according to a report this year on the burial sites by Scott
Hamilton, a professor of anthropology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.

How many children died at the residential schools?

When children died at residential schools, their families were often
given vague explanations or told that they had simply run away and
vanished, the commission found. When the schools acknowledged the deaths
of children, they generally refused, until the 1960s, to return their
bodies to their families. Remains were sent back only if it was cheaper
than burying them at the schools.

In its report, the commission estimated that at least 4,100 students had
died or gone missing from the residential schools, and it demanded that
the government account for all of those children. It did not, however,
definitely say how many had disappeared.

Murray Sinclair, a former judge and senator who headed the commission,
said in an email last week that he now believed the number was “well
beyond 10,000.”

Since the commission ended, a federal project has been underway to
document the fates of the children who never returned to their families
after being sent to residential schools and now are generally known as
“the missing children.”