I've just read the gruesome news from Kamloops Indian Residential School. It needs little further comment from me, and one should not say too much in the heat of the moment, but:
- Canada is far from the only country where Native Americans were treated like this.
- The school was run by a missionary order of the Roman Catholic Church. He that hath ears ....
Some people involved in this cruelty (I refer not only to the treatment of the children, but also to the fact that families were not notified of the deaths) may well be as little as ten years older than I am. So perhaps they can give evidence. It should be interesting.
Oh. Yeah. California's "Hispanic" inhabitants have experiences like this in their past, a few centuries back. Spanish is by no means their ancestral language; it was imposed on them by ... missionaries.
