Residential School Christian Survivors gathering in Sioux Lookout
Residential School Christian Survivors
Sioux Lookout Area
RE: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL CHRISTIAN SURVIVORS
FORUM: February 21–23, 2006 at Sunset Inn
God Bless !
At this time, I am providing the following:
- Wawatay Radio Broadcast No. 2 – February 8, 2006
- Agenda for the Christian Survivors Forum
- The Canadian Holocaust: Crimes Perpetuated Against Aboriginal Peoples
For the Youth who read the K-Net News; I have a Special Request.
Can you print out this information and provide copies to those Residential School Survivors who have accepted the Christian Faith plus the Reverends; Pastors; and other Church Leaders in each of your communities. THANK YOU !
For further information; the Contact Numbers are as follows:
- Phone No. (807) 535-2620
- Fax No. (807) 535-1152
- mikemorris@knet.ca
Mike Morris
Signatory to Treaty 9
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Nation
Kasabonika Lake Reserve
WAWATAY RADIO BROADCAST No. 2 Feb. 8/ 06
God Bless !
If you fail to deliver the warning; they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible, demanding your blood for theirs. Ezekiel 3:18
I will be talking about the Agreement-in-Principle which was signed on November 20, 2005 by Canada; four (4) Churches; AFN; and some Legal Firms. The Honourable Frank Iacobucci must submit his Report for the final Comprehensive Settlement Package to Stephen Harper’s Cabinet on March 31, 2006. THE PLAN is to provide the Common Experience Payment of $ 10,000.00 plus $ 3,000.00 for each year to each Residential School Survivors who was alive on May 30, 2005.
I will not be talking about the Money as that matter is being dealt with by AFN; NAN; and our First Nation leaders. I will only make one comment for our leaders. The leaders must address the issue of Canada, our Treaty Partner, coming to our Nation and taking our Children away to their Residential School. Treaty 9 was broken by Canada. As NAN spent a lot of our money on their recent Treaty Conference; the Grand Chief must provide his Position Paper on this issue.
I want to talk to the Residential School Christian Survivors.
The Major Problem for the Christian Survivors is that over 50,000 helpless Indigenous Children were killed at these 130 Residential Schools which operated across Canada for 122 years. By accepting the offered Compensation Funds; the Survivors are being paid to accept that this Genocide ( Murder ) is only “ Certain Harms and Abuses ”. THIS IS WRONG ! ! ! The Crimes of Genocide is still Murder.
For the Survivors who have accepted the Christian Faith; we must understand what is happening. Even if we don’t say or do anything and our Fellow Survivors accept the offered Compensation Funds; their acceptance will signify our own acceptance.
WHAT will the Survivors be accepting ?
1. We will be accepting the murder of over 50,000 helpless Indigenous Children as just “ Certain Harms and Abuses ”. The Residential School Policy ( which created the Residential Schools where these Indigenous Children were killed ) was one of Canada’s Policies for our People. We will also be accepting the Policy which resulted in the loss of over 50,000 Souls. The Survivors become Accomplices to what happened.
2. We will become Party to the process whereby the 6th Commandment is not applied to these Murders. If we do this; One Elder has stated that we are condemning our own souls to Hell. I don’t fully understand this teaching but I appreciate the concern. As the Survivors who have accepted the Christian Faith; we cannot ignore the 6th Commandment and only accept the other nine ( 9 ) Commandments. Personally, I need help on this Issue.
3. Our own People will have paid 6.25 Cents of each and every Dollar of these offered Compensation Funds that you will receive. Our own People ( your Fellow Survivors ; your families ) will be paying for your misery. WHY are our own People paying ? Did our own People send us to these Residential Schools ?
4. You are being paid for your Forgiveness. Once you have spent this money; your Residential School Issues will still remain with you.
WHAT have our own People done to the Survivors ?
WHAT are our own People paying us to forgive them for ?
Example:
- If you get paid $ 19,000.00 - $10,000.00 for the Common Experience Payment plus $ 9,000.00 ( $ 3,000.00/Year x 3 Years ).
- Canada pays 75 % or $ 14,250.00.
- The four ( 4 ) Churches pay 25 % or $ 4,750.00.
- The Anglican Church pays 25 % or $ 1,187.50.
5. You will be required to forget about those Survivors who have passed on as of May 29, 2005. You will be required to forget about their own misery plus the misery of their families. We have five ( 5 ) Survivors who have passed on as of May 29, 2005.
I don’t know about the rest of you but the killing of over 50,000 Children plus the life-long difficulties of the Survivors is much more than just “ Certain Harms and Abuses ”. What was allowed at these Residential Schools was Murder and goes against the 6th Commandment.
As one (1) Survivor who has accepted the Christian Faith; I find it very difficult to accept the offered Compensation Funds – at this time. If being paid and accepting the Murder of over 50,000 helpless Indigenous Children means Eternal Damnation; We need HELP to make the Right Choice.
We need help with resolving these Spiritual Issues.
We need help from those Residential School Survivors who are Pastors and Reverends. Our Plan is to hold the Residential School Christian Survivors Forum at Sioux Lookout on February 21-23, 2006. Detailed Information about the Christian Survivors Forum is provided with The Notice ( in the February 9th Wawatay Newspaper edition ).
If you are Residential School Survivor who is a Pastor or Reverend – we need your help !
You are invited to participate but you are required to pay for your own expenses. We might have Special Wasaya Fares and the Sunset Inn has provided Special Room Rates.
WE NEED FINANCIAL HELP for the following:
$ 2,000.00 for Reverend Kevin Annett – Author of HIDDEN FROM HISTORY.
$ 932.00 for the Meeting Room Costs.
$ 238.00 for The Notice.
$ 250.00 for Wawatay Radio.
$ 1,500.00 for the Sound/Recording Equipment.
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL CHRISTIAN SURVIVORS FORUM: February 21-23, 2006
1. AGENDA for DAY ONE
Opening Prayer
Approval of Agenda
Presentation by Reverend Kevin Annett:
Author of HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: The Canadian Holocaust. The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by the State and Church in Canada; A Summary of an Ongoing, Independent Inquiry into the Canadian Native
“ Residential Schools ” and their Legacy.
Coffee Break
The Bible: The 6th Commandment – “ thou shalt not kill ”
Does the 6th Commandment apply to what happened to over
50,000 Indigenous Children at these Residential Schools ?
Are we breaking the 6th Commandment when we accept the
offered Compensation Funds ?
Lunch Break
Are we condoning Murder when we accept these monies ?
Can we ignore the 6th Commandment and only accept the other nine ( 9 ) Commandments ?
Coffee Break
Are we condemning our souls to Hell when we accept the offered Compensation Funds ?
How should “ breaking ” the 6th Commandment be applied to Canada ? to the Churches ?
Closing Prayer
2. AGENDA for DAY TWO
Opening Prayer
The Purpose of the Residential Schools vs God’s Plan
Are we agreeing to The Purpose ( to kill the Indian within the Indian ) of the Residential Schools when we accept the Compensation Funds ?
Are we agreeing with the Assimilation Policies of Canada ?
Are we agreeing that God’s Plan for our People is wrong ?
Coffee Break
Crimes of Genocide ( Murder ) vs Certain Harms and Abuses
Is Genocide acceptable for helpless Indigenous Children ?
Is Genocide just “ Certain Harms and Abuses ” ?
Should this Genocide be addressed by The Apology from Canada at the United Nations ?
Lunch Break
Contributions to the four ( 4 ) Church’s Compensation Fund
Is it right to pay for your own misery ?
Is it right to pay your Fellow Survivors for their misery ?
What are our People paying for ?
Did our People send us to these Residential Schools ?
Coffee Break
May 29, 2005 vs May 30, 2005
Do we forget about those Residential School Survivors who have passed on as of May 29, 2005 ?
Do we deny their suffering ?
Do we deny their family’s suffering ?
What will happen to the accepted concept of Intergenerational Impacts of the Residential School System upon our Families, children and grandchildren ?
Closing Prayer
3. AGENDA for DAY THREE
Opening Prayer
Forgiveness
Who are the Survivors expected to forgive ?
What Wrongs are the Survivors expected to forgive ?
How should Forgiveness be demonstrated ?
By Canada
By the four ( 4 ) Churches
By Fellow Survivors.
- WHAT are our own People paying us to forgive them for ?
- WHAT have our own People done to the Survivors ?
Coffee Break
Presentations on Forgiveness
Arch Deacon Alec Fox
Other Pastors and Reverends
Lunch Break
Plan of Action
Closing Prayer
The Canadian Holocaust: Crimes Perpetuated Against
Aboriginal Peoples
These Offenses occurred at ten ( 10 ) Residential Schools in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario between 1992 to the present time and were perpetuated against Aboriginal children, youth and adults by the clergy, staff, government agents, medical personnel and police. These crimes were experienced and/or witnessed by thirty-eight (38) Aboriginal Survivors and attested to by fifty-one (51) other persons. These crimes were also verified by documentation and evidence from Church, government and police archives. More than 50,000 Indigenous children died from these crimes.
1. Murder, by beating, poisoning, hanging, starvation, strangulation, electric shocks, medical experiments, being thrown from windows and being kicked or thrown down stairs.
2. Criminal negligence.
3. Rape, by individuals and groups, encourage and abetted by staff.
4. Sexual molestation on a routine and daily basis.
5. Daily, unprovoked, systematic beatings, by staff and clergy using whips, sticks, horse harnesses, iron bars, table legs, studded leather straps, pool cues and bare fists.
6. Routine administering of electric shocks to children as young as five as a punishment and disciplinary device and for demonstration ” purposes to visiting Church and government officials.
7. Daily administering of electro-convulsive shocks to the heads of children and youth, under the supervision of doctors, social workers, clergy and the RCMP.
8. Prolonged and deliberate exposure of children as young as five to X-ray radiation, causing subsequent illness and death.
9. Other forms of regular mental and physical torture on children as young as five, as punishment for bed-wetting, speaking Aboriginal languages, or not obeying instructions, including:
Tightening fish twine around boy’s penises,
Sticking needles into children’s tongues, ears and penises,
Forcing children’s heads into toilets and making them eat excrement,
Holding children over open graves and burying them alive,
Telling children their parents are dead and that they were about to be killed,
Stripping children naked in front of the assembled school and physically and sexually degrading them,
Ripping the hair from their heads,
Smashing their heads against concrete and wooden surfaces, resulting in permanent debilitation, including mental retardation,
Forcing them to stand in ice water for hours on end,
Forcing them to sleep outside in the middle of winter, and
Forcing them to strangle or beat kittens and rabbits to death, and then eat the remains.
10. Medical experimentation on children as young as five ( without consent or parental knowledge ), causing illness and deaths, including:
a. Receiving injections of penicillin and tuberculosis toxins, and other experimental drugs,
b. Skin grafting and other forms of eugenics,
c. Deliberate exposure to communicable diseases, especially tuberculosis,
d. Prolonged exposure to radiation,
e. Sexually sterilizing males and females,
f. Behaviour modification and mind control methods, including sensory deprivation, electric shocks and prolonged isolation, and,
g. Prolonged exposure to sub-zero cold while naked.
11. Regularly operating on children’s teeth without using any pain killer or anesthesia.
12. Slave Labour of children as young as five in fieldwork, domestic servitude and manual labour for as much as sixteen hours a day, including the common practice of “ renting out ” children to local farmers and merchants as unpaid workers in return for kick-backs to the School Principal.
13. Involuntary sexual sterilization of males and females upon their reaching puberty, as a matter of policy, in programs funded by Indian Affairs Department and operated by United Church and Roman Catholic missionary doctors in Church hospitals.
14. Involuntary sexual sterilization of non-Christian Aboriginals as a matter of policy and as punishment for refusing to convert to Christian denomination or to attend United Church, Anglican or Roman Catholic services, according to a “ quota system ” required by the federal government.
15. Deliberating contaminating children with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases by forcing them to sleep with others who were infected, in unventilated, locked dormitories, and forcing then to eat fetid and contaminated food; and concealing their resulting deaths from their parents through cover stories and false death records.
16. As a matter of regular practice, Inducing abortions in young women made pregnant by rape by school staff, clergy and visiting officials, causing miscarriages and deaths; and coercing women into abortions through threats and violence.
17. Deliberately killing the newborn babies of such pregnant mothers, along with the mothers, in order not to implicate the fathers; and burying the remains of mother and child in secret burial sites on Residential School and Church property; and subsequently falsifying school, government and mortuary documents to erase any record of these murdered persons.
18. Regularly drugging and involuntarily hospitalizing students and other eyewitnesses to murder, and other crimes by staff and clergy.
19. Illegal administering of drugs by staff and clergy not medically trained or competent, without the consent or knowledge of those persons drugged or their parents, causing illness and deaths.
20. Forcing children to walk by and observe the dead bodies of so-called “ suicide ” victims who were in fact murdered by staff and clergy.
21. Forcing children to routinely inhale gas until they passed out or died.
22. Involuntarily removing gold teeth from children and adults, and removing entire sets of teeth from others, without anesthesia.
23. Mass removal of organs and of appendixes, adenoids, and other glands for experimental purposes, causing deaths.
24. Kidnapping and imprisoning children as young as three on Church and Residential School property, denying parents access to them or knowledge of their location, in order to:
a. extort money from these parents
b. blackmail Native elders and parents into signing over land titles and resources
c. force parents and Native elders to bring all their children into the Residential Schools
d. “ rent out ” these children in secret pedophile rings, and
e. force parents and elders to convert to Christianity and comply with genocidal laws and practices
25. Regularly forcing children as young as three to eat spoiled and unhealthy food, including maggot-filled and regurgitated food, in direct violation of existing contractual obligations to the government, causing illness and death.
26. Deliberately denying food and water to children as young as three, for as much as three days or more, causing illness and deaths.
27. Physically confining children as young as three in small closets with no ventilation, for periods of more than one week, causing illness and deaths.
28. Forcing children and youths to engage in physical combat and sexual activity with each other, on threat of torture, causing severe injuries and deaths.
29. Forcing children as young as four to line up and perform oral sex on male staff and clergy, including the Principal, and making other children watch.
30. Forcing naked children as young as five to crawl down a line of other students and be beaten by them with belts, whips and sticks, causing severe injuries and deaths ( “ The Gauntlet” ).
31. Denying medical care and attention of any kind to sick and dying children, made ill by bad food and other deliberate practices by staff, and refusing to notify doctors and police officials of these sick and injured children, causing deaths which were then concealed from their parents and falsified on school, government and mortuary records.
32. As a matter of policy and standard practice, forcing children as young as three to live in and be confined to permanently sub-standard, unsafe and unhealthy conditions, in school dormitories and hospital wards, lacking heat, sanitation and ventilation which were prone to fires, causing illnesses and deaths.
33. Illegally consigning children as young as three to non-Native persons connected to organized pedophile rings, and concealing the children’s fate through police, Church and government complicity.
34. Illegally consigning children as young as three to adoption agencies, hospitals, private clinics and non-Native foster homes, for reasons unknown, and subsequently concealing the fate of these children.
35. Obstruction of justice and of police investigations.
36. Blackmailing, threatening and killing witnesses to these and other crimes.
37. Displacing Aboriginal families from their traditional lands, including by evicting non-Christian Natives from their homes and “ squatting ” Church-affiliated Natives on this territory, causing multi-generational conflict, genocide, poverty and abuse in virtually every Native community.
38. Illegally obtaining, selling and speculating in ancestral Native land and its resources, against the laws and wishes of traditional elders, and concealing these acts through intimidating, jailing and killing Native elders and other eyewitnesses.
39. Involuntarily transferring children as young as three to foreign regions, contrary to the provisions of the Indian Act and against the wishes of their parents, and concealing their location and fate from their parents.
40. Forcing children as young as three into Residential Schools and hospitals without first obtaining the consent or written release of their guardianship rights as required under federal law.
41. Operating a regime of terror against non-Christian Aboriginals and others resisting European colonialism, through private constables and police forces under the control of clergy of the United, Presbyterian, Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, with government consent.
42. From at least 1933 to the present day, operating secret pedophile rings for government, Church, judicial, police and Native officials, using children as young as three from Indian reserves and Residential schools; and concealing these child sex rings and the resulting deaths of these children through intimidation, murder, falsifying records and the active complicity of the most senior officials of the judiciary, Churches, RCMP and the federal government.
43. During the same period, using children from these sex rings in cultritual and sacrificial practices operated by wealthy men, both Aboriginal and Caucasian, especially in the regions around Victoria, BC, Thunder Bay, Ontario and Manitoulin Island, Ontario, and in connection with drug trafficking networks operated by Native leaders using Department of Indian Affairs money.
44. Secretly “ loaning out ” children from Residential Schools and reserves as live test subjects to pharmaceutical companies like Bayer and Upjohn Ltd., and to other corporations, in collaboration with Cornell University and the researchers from the US Department of Defense, through formal agreements between these agencies and the Roman Catholic and United Churches.
45. Continuing to medically experiment on Aboriginal People without their informed consent by indiscriminately forcing on them vaccinations, sterilizing agents and other lethal substances, under the guise of public health programs.
46. Systematically concealing all of these crimes, by murder, falsifying official records, destroying medical records, government and Church correspondence, and other evidence, and disinterring human remains, with the institutionalized collusions of the RCMP, medical personnel, government officials, and Church leaders.
The evidence and testimonies indicating these Crimes were obtained between October 14, 1994 and January31, 2001 from 158 Survivors of these and other Crimes against Humanity.
This evidence was compiled from:
Personal interviews.
Written affidavits.
Videotaped recordings.
Public Forums:
a. The Justice in the Valley Commission of Inquiry into Crimes
Against First Nations
Convened in Port Alberni, B. C.
December 1994
b. The Circle of Justice Healing Circle
Vancouver, B. C.
July 1997 to September 1998
c. The Tribunal of the International Human Rights Association
of American Minorities ( an affiliate of the United Nations )
Vancouver, B. C.
June 12 –14, 1998
Reverend Kevin Daniel Annett, B. A., M. A., M. Div.
Advisor and Researcher
The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
Vancouver, B. C.
February 1, 2001
1-888-265-1007 ( in Canada only )