Residential schools functioned as land theft by removing Indigenous children

Evidence

His granddaughter, Kanahus Manuel, one of the leaders of a movement that has been trying for years to stop the expansion of an oil pipeline through BC’s interior, described the purpose of the schools that had abused so many members of her family: “They stole the children to steal the land.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 849

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Klein’s broader thesis that the Canadian settler state and the pipeline economy are the material base the Mirror World’s grievance narrative obscures. — connects to: State-enforced Christian schooling of Native children lasted into the late 1970s — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 426; Boarding schools aimed to extinguish native culture by manufacturing consumer desires — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1198; Boarding schools severed whole generations from their ceremonial language and songs — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 125