From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Each of the 21 native communities in BC is being given $475,000 to 'search for   
   unmarked graves'. That's $10 Million of BC taxpayer monies. There is no way in   
   hell that it will cost that much to search for unmarked graves.   
      
   But these monies are not really for the searches . . . they're just another   
   pavlov-reaction by governments that have been trained to appease native groups   
   - or suffer the consequences of their violence and disruptions of the rest of   
   society.   
      
   We need to cut them loose . . . and pretty damned quickly before they sink the   
   taxpaying ship. Look out, the rest of Canada . . . here they come for their   
   share.   
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   The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 21, 2021   
      
   British Columbia Indigenous communities in B.C. can now claim up to $475K to   
   help search for remains   
      
   Provincial government also announces appointment of liaisons to help First   
   Nations in their searches   
      
   The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nations   
   communities to help with searches for remains at former residential schools or   
   hospitals.   
      
   Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, said   
   on Tuesday that each community can receive up to $475,000 as it carries out   
   searches, planning, technical work and archival research, while also engaging   
   with elders, survivors    
   and other First Nations that have an interest in an area.   
      
   No deadline is attached to the grants, he said, and the funding is from the   
   $12 million the province announced last month for research at former   
   residential school sites, as well as for mental health and cultural supports   
   for Indigenous communities.   
      
   The government also announced the appointment of Charlene Belleau and Lydia   
   Hwitsum as First Nations liaisons to help the communities as the search for   
   remains continues.   
      
   Belleau, 68, said she would like to find the remains of her great-grandfather,   
   who took his own life while at St. Joseph's Mission Residential School in   
   Williams Lake, B.C.   
      
      
   Findings bring closure <<=== ヾ(￣0￣ )ノ   
      
   The former chief of Esk'etemc First Nation said finding the remains of   
   Augustine Allen will bring closure for her.   
      
   "They buried him there without telling our family,'' she said in a news   
   conference.   
      
   "This was during a period of time when flogging was at its worst. They strung   
   our children on poles and lashed them until they passed out.''   
      
   The Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Nation announced in May that ground-penetrating   
   radar had identified what are believed to be the remains of more than 200   
   children in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.   
      
   Several other First Nations have announced similar findings since then.   
      
   The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified up to   
   6,000 missing children, but anticipated the actual number was greater.   
      
   Belleau also highlighted the case of eight-year-old Duncan Sticks, who ran   
   away from St. Joseph's and froze to death. An inquest was held into his death   
   with no results and no change for the residential school for years, she said.   
      
   These stories come from her own experience and from research she undertook to   
   understand what Indigenous communities faced, she said.   
      
   Belleau found out about her great-grandfather, who died in the summer of 1920   
   by eating poisonous water hemlock, through a report she oversaw years later,   
   she said. That's when she asked her mother about it.   
      
   "She just said 'Yes, that happened,' but didn't really want to talk about   
   it,'' Belleau said in an interview.   
      
   "So, you know, and I think we have to respect that our elders or our parents   
   may be strong Catholics, and I don't want to insult or hurt her either. So, I   
   just took it that she never said anything, but it was there in black and white   
   for me to see.''   
      
   Belleau was No. 169 when she attended St. Joseph's.   
      
   "We've waited for this time for a long time. Through all of those inquiries we   
   told governments, we told churches, our children never came home,'' Belleau   
   said during the news conference.   
      
   "They never believed us. Now we know. Now you know. We have a responsibility   
   to work together to bring our loved ones home.''   
   Liaisons to help with healing   
      
   The liaisons will be there for all nations as they investigate the residential   
   schools in their communities and proceed with   
   healing, she said.   
      
   Their Indigenous ancestors had prepared the communities for the "dark times"   
   — including residential schools, the so-called Sixties Scoop and sexual   
   abuse — through song and ceremonies, she noted.   
      
   She said it's "great'' that what was meant to be destroyed in residential   
   schools, such as Indigenous language and culture, is now First Nations   
   communities' biggest support.   
      
   "Our traditions will now be our greatest strength,'' Belleau said.   
      
   "I encourage our leaders and our families to continue our ceremonies, continue   
   our songs, our sacred fires when it's safe to do so, so that we can continue   
   to honour those children that never came home, and that we will wait to bring   
   home.''   
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   First they will have to be exhumed and examined. Has even a *single* unmarked   
   grave been excavated and a body exhumed? Or is the money being shoveled at the   
   natives the main goal?   
      
   I think non-natives want 'closure' more than do the natives.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)