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	Book Documents Schools' Crimes The Expositor February 11, 2008 http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=897056 To those nay-sayers and doubters, the book, A National Crime by John S. Milloy will reveal other pertinent supporting data and facts concerning the crime of genocide as claimed by both Kevin Annett and Milloy. It is another shame for non-native society (of the time) to bear responsibility for. The cries and pleas of we Onkwehonwe of Six Nations and other Indian nations across Canada went unheeded - no, were ignored. Indeed, there are many stories from Mush-hole survivors (of the Mohawk Institute) where no violence nor sexual abuse was claimed against school staff. Why? I can't say for sure. Perhaps school staff had their "favourites." It wouldn't take too much watching and stalking on the part of school staff to determine which among our children would be too frightened or timid to have the courage to report them. These children suffered in silence, and many to their very deaths. In fairness, Milloy's book also gives several examples of the kindness of some residential school staff who knew the difference between right and wrong. Dr. P.H. Bryce, an outspoken critic of residential school conditions, became the target of a conspiracy on the part of the colonial government to discredit him. It was Bryce who coined the phrase in 1922, the "national crime." It appears we Onkwehonwe have a greater understanding of our white brothers and sisters than they of us, for if they, over these many years, had taken the time to really know us, our ancient culture and our ways, (as they insist we do with their society to this very day), they would know how important it is for us to have our children returned to us. We not only need acknowledgment of these heinous crimes by those responsible, we desperately need to know the spirits of our children are back home, safe with us. It is important for your readers to know that a great deal of the damning evidence supporting our claims of genocide comes from archives in Ottawa. Equally important, there are still countless thousands of documents the federal government refuses to release. If, as so many non-natives are fond of saying to us; "that was hundreds of years ago, get over it," why the refusal to release these documents? Milloy's accounting in A National Crime even has evidence that one of the churches, (which is identified in the book), upon learning that investigators were getting close, started destroying church records regarding residential schools under its control. The simple question stands out glaring in its nakedness - why? We have only touched the tip of a very, very big iceberg. The churches, Canadian government, along with the Crown of England, are jointly and severally complicit in this absurdity and, further, need to be exposed for their part in the outright murder and/or manslaughter of our defenceless children. More evidence reveals that they actually knew of the atrocities taking place and turned their faces away! And non-natives wonder why we are so angry and determined to protect what little we have left. They wonder because they simply do not know of this dastardly history the government has desperately tried to conceal from them. What's worse is, the majority of non-native Canadians does not want to know. Over these many years, our voices of protest of these atrocities grew silent. It became clear to us that no one cared. They believed the spin and the pablum handed to them by their politicians and, for the most part, believe it to this day. To this very day, we still speak quietly among ourselves of the "little ones" who are lost to us. If the time ever comes where our non-native brothers and sisters really take the time and get to know us, who knows, you may even come to like us. Then, maybe, understanding will come with that friendship. It's all we have ever asked for - understanding. That's not to too much to ask in this supposedly enlightened society we claim we are, is it?
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