Couldn’t agree more. That children were stolen from their families for “assimilation,” only to turn up in mass graves or abused in all sorts of horrendous ways really shows what the “assimilation” narrative was really about. And it must be noted that there were oftentimes unofficial, other times explicit starvation policies (such as in Canada) against the indigenous peoples, similar to what was done within the concentration camps, and today is done in occupied Palestine. And even to this day indigenous people are targeted by police brutality- assimilated or not- and many women go missing, and anecdotally as someone who’s lived in the Canadian prairies frankly I never knew a first nations kid there in my childhood, who wasn’t adopted (and I knew many, close friends, schoolmates, etc).

To this day there are mass graves being found at the “residential schools.” And in regards to the Metis- it really shows the depths of intolerance and greed of the settlers, that even the half-white (and if you’ve seen Metis- by all means they tend to look considerably white) Metis were targeted the way they were. Look at a picture of Louis Riel- he was of 7/8ths white ancestry and they slaughtered him and his people. The Anglo-Saxon “one drop” mentality was more strict, more horrific in its implementation than even Nazi Germany’s notions of racial purity…