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Article: The Circle Game.(impact of Canada's Residential Schools program on social structure of Iroquois Nation)(Excerpt)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- December 1, 1999
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The following are excerpts from a Speech by Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, member of the Iroquois Confederacy (Oneida), delivered in Edmonton, Alberta, in November, 1995.
Residential Schools were one of many attempts at the genocide of the Aboriginal Peoples inhabiting the area now commonly called Canada. Initially, the goal of obliterating these peoples was connected with stealing what they owned:the land, the sky, the waters, and their lives, and all that these encompassed. Although this connection persists, present-day acts and policies of genocide are also connected with the hypocritical, legal and self-delusionional need on the part of the perpetrators to conceal ...