The boy behind the cruel nickname

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/the-boy-behind-the-nickname

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.

Even among a list of thousands of names, it stands out — it's hard to swallow.

Dummy Bad Boy.

As First Nations across the country work to uncover unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada, one question is at the heart of the effort: Who do they belong to?

A two-month investigation by CBC News sifting through archives helped piece together some of who this one missing student was — and how his outdated and derogatory name ended up on the official record.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

for visibility

[keithbvadu2]

3. The curse of religion enslaving, mistreating, and killing cultures and people they consider inferior

The curse of religion enslaving, mistreating, and killing cultures and people they consider inferior.

CONTROL!

Think it would be any better under a Christian theocracy?

[Justice matters.]

6. I would say: GENOCIDE.

To benefit the ruling class (which was Royalty in those times).

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. The U.S. government ran plenty of its own schools designed to do the same thing, without religion.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. That is a terribly sad story

and not at all uncommon.

In re the "surname" Bad Boy, there are a lot of those. One that stands out in my mind is one my brother told me about from his time in IHS. On one rez he worked on, there was a fairly prominent family whose surname was Stink Dog. The only thing he could figure out was that it was a bad translation of the word for skunk spirit. Still...

[Justice matters.]

5. And how many young boys died of Smallpox here who had no graves...

thus no names to remember or to search for?

[Bayard]

7. Poor kid

"He was confined to the Brandon Hospital with tuberculosis as of June 30, 1896.

Having infected the knee joint, his right leg was amputated in September of that year in an attempt to prolong his life.

He succumbed to the disease two months later, on Nov 12, 1896, at the age of 18 or 19.

Exacerbated by poor health, safety and nutrition conditions, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death of children who died at residential schools, according to TRC findings."

[mountain grammy]

9. I recommend the podcast "This Land"

the series on the ICWA is infuriating and heartbreaking.. makes me ashamed to be white.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Don't waste your time being ashamed. Work to dismantle white supremacy instead.

[mountain grammy]

11. I've been working on that most of my life..

and I think most on this board would say the same, and I'm still ashamed to be white.