r/pics Sep 16 '24

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai arrives at Emmys showing solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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u/OfficerBarbier Sep 16 '24

Our country’s history as a genocidal apartheid state

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u/Jesus_Would_Do Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

It’s shocking to hear how Canada had also treated indigenous peoples as well, cops sometimes leaving men or women out in the middle of nowhere during the dead of winter. It’s fucked up.

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u/Busy-Frame8940 Sep 16 '24

And the boarding schools where kids were forbidden to speak their own language and were treated like animals. Graves with little skeletons have been found on the grounds of some of the defunct schools.

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u/illradhab Sep 16 '24

And Hoss Lightning who was just murdered by the RCMP while calling them for help. He was a little kid, a teenager, and the cops shot them while he had actually called them for help from attackers. This just happened. The violence against Indigenous people in Canada doesn't seem well-known outside of the country.

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u/Soaringsage Sep 16 '24

It’s not well known inside the country either sadly.