Prominent scholars accused the Canadian Historical Association of \u0022coercive\u0022 behaviour, and of framing a fake \u0022consensus\u0022 among historians
This includes policies that prevent births within a targeted group, or that removes them of their children. The genocidaire can also inflict conditions on a people “calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
While Miller said there are documents in the U.S. which show a government willingness to wipe first peoples from the map, the same cannot be said of Canada. “No Canadian government statement or unpublished government document has ever been produced that contains evidence of an ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,'” he wrote.
Justice Murray Sinclair, centre, and Commissioners Chief Wilton Littlechild, left, and Marie Wilson pull back a blanket to unveil the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of Canada’s residential school system, in Ottawa on December 15, 2015.In 2015, Sinclair said that the system “amounts to nothing short of cultural genocide — a systematic and concerted attempt to extinguish the spirit of Aboriginal peoples.
The Kuper Island Indian Residential School is seen on Penelakut Island, British Columbia in a June 19, 1941 archive photo.“The goal of policies we now consider horrific — forced attendance at residential schools, limitations on mobility, reshaping economies and systems of governance, and suppressing languages and spiritual practices — was to control Indigenous people but not to eradicate them,” they wrote, adding “assimilation should not be confused with or equated to genocide.
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