Why you Shouldn’t Celebrate Canada Day- and what to do Instead
O Canada, our home on native land... Content Warning: Mentions of Genocide, Residential Schools, Violence, a country built of murder and genocide, like every country
Canada Day is a day for mourning and acknowledgment in regard to the atrocities continuously committed against Indigenous communities performer Danielle Migwans
Stolen from their homes and separated from their families, indigenous children were placed in state run residential schools, to gentrify them, where many were genosided.
Children's shoes are placed at the Queens Park provincial legislature, after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children at former indigenous residential schools
To date, over 2000 (officially recorded) unmarked graves of Indigenous children have been found -however, the real number is said to exceed 10,000, which includes unrecorded numbers and the countless residential schools that have not yet been searched.
169 potential unmarked graves found at former Canadian school. So, it's a sunny day! You say, today... Only one of many across this great land.