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List of Mass Graves at Residential Schools to be Issued this Thursday, April 10
Monday, April 7, 2008 – 12:30 pm, PST
Vancouver:
A comprehensive list of mass graves of children at dozens of former Indian Residential Schools across Canada will be released to the media and the public this Thursday, April 10 at 12 noon at a special ceremony at the Indian Affairs office at 1138 Melville street in downtown Vancouver.
At the same event, an independent, non-governmental inquiry into crimes in Indian residential schools will be formally launched by aboriginal elders, including Squamish Hereditary Chief Kiapilano and Chief Red Jacket.
The event is sponsored by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD).
PS. By Tony
Very proud of this man Kevin Annett.. in the darkest hours when the Church and State came after him and used all methods to silence him and when almost everybody turned his back on him… he stood his ground.
I can hear him whispering back then “If I perish I perish�. Now it’s easy for him and I know why… once you lose everything and you have nothing more to lose, fear loses its power over you… you know from there on that even if you perish you have won.
I remember once that the “men in black� asked me to withdraw my documentary. I replied “now you must kill me because there is no other way to stop me�. From there on it was easy, very easy… they can kill children and they can kill the messengers BUT THEY CANNOT KILL THE TRUTH!
Chomsky said he deserves a Nobel Prize… I believe to call him Eagle Strong Voice is the greatest reward he can ever receive as he became rightfully a father not only to the Native People but also to all of us that seek righteousness in all the battlefields in the world that truth is trembled upon.
With these few words I express my deep and unconditional support and friendship to my brother Eagle Strong Voice and promise to support with all my heart all his efforts to bring about awareness concerning the Residential Schools and the over 50.000 Native children that died there. We must never forget that it was from the shores of Europe that the settlers first arrived in the Americas, and when we say White Americans we mean our European ancestors. I hope Europe will soon lift her eyes towards the truth she is neglecting.
Yours
Svnoyi Wohali (Night Eagle)
For more information:
FRD spokesperson Rev. Kevin Annett
pager: 1-888-265-1007
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CTV.ca | Residential school protesters gather in Vancouver

Residential school protesters gather in Vancouver

Updated Sun. Jan. 13 2008 10:33 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Protesters gathered outside a downtown Vancouver Catholic church Sunday, demanding to know the locations where children were allegedly buried at residential schools in the province.

The crowd stood in front of the Holy Rosary Cathedral where they hoped to give a letter to Vancouver's archbishop.

Organizer Kevin Annett, a former United Church minister, claims native children who died at the schools were buried in mass graves -- but none of those allegations have been proven.

"It isn't just about sexual and physical assault anymore, it's about genocide -- it's about murder," he said outside the church.

Annett said the Catholic, United and Anglican churches all took part in the burials, and also claimed to know where some of the graves were located.

"We know there are mass graves behind the schools in Port Alberni, in Alert Bay, in Mission," he said. "Right next to the grounds of the Mission (Folk Music Festival)."

When Father Glenn Dion, rector of the Holy Rosary Cathedral, walked through the crowd, Annett spoke to him about the allegations.

Dion advised him to make sure the claims were substantiated.

"If there's some truth to these allegations, if anyone knows anything about this, please bring it to the authorities and let them deal with it," said Dion. "I don't know anything about it myself -- I'm just a simple parish priest here."

The federal government is creating a $60-million Truth and Reconciliation Commission, modeled after a similar commission in South Africa that was aimed at healing the wounds of apartheid, to hear stories of abuse at the schools.

While the accusations of mass graves are unproven, the commission has told the RCMP it should be ready to probe the issue.

With a report by CTV British Columbia's Dave Pinton

Barb

I live in Alberta and did not hear anything about this until I read this post????????

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ClothDancer02

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i just got this in an email...i never heard of it until then either....hmmmm wonder why the media dint make more of a deal of it eh...

timmy tiger

Wow, that's something. I have some friends from Canada whose relatives went to the Indian schools there. I'll have to let them know. I think that they would be really interested in that info.