10.) Stealing "Indian" human rights in 2021 by Cindy Blackstock. June 10,2021.(2 min read)

 Cindy Blackstock is Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. First Nations Children's Action Research and Education Service.

Following quotes are from: PolicyOptions.irpp.org. Title: Stealing "Indian" human rights in 2021, by Cindy Blackstock, june 10,2021. Searching: "jordans principal", this website was found.

Author Cindy Blackstock writes: "a revealing 1958 speech by Gerry Gambill reads like it could be Canada's modern-day roadmap for its treatment of First Nation children".

Cindy Blackstock continues: "Although I have been working on First Nations Children's equity for over 30 years, I still can't understand why the government keeps choosing to fight to do the wrong thing. While sorting through my papers in the midst of a lockdown, I found some answers. They were in an old copy of some speaking notes given to me by Gerry Gambill, a self-described "non-indian" working in the Department of Indian Affairs. Gambill had put together the notes for a human rights conference talk at Tobique First Nation in 1958. They were titled " Stealing Indian Human Rights".(end of Blackstock quote)

Remember, the following quote is from a 1958 memo, from an employee working in the Department of Indian Affairs, according to Cindy Blackstock. She received this memo from that employee-Gerry Gambill.

"Make him ( the Indian) a non-person. Human rights are for people. Convince the Indians that their ancestors are savages, that they were pagan, that Indians are drunkards. Make them wards of the government. Make a legal distinction as in the Indian Act between Indians and persons. Write history books that tell half the story. Convince the Indian that he should be patient, that these things take time. Tell him that we are making progress and progress takes time and make him believe things are being done for his own good and set yourself up as a protector of the Indian's human rights. Make the Indian believe you are working hard for him, putting in much overtime and at a great sacrifice, and imply that he should be appreciative. This is the ultimate in skills in stealing human rights: WHEN YOU OBTAIN THE THANKS OF YOUR VICTIM. Hold a conference on human rights, have everyone blow off steam and tension, and go home feeling that things are well in hand. Consult the Indian, but do not act on the basis of what you hear: tell the Indian he has a voice and go through the motions of listening. Then interpret what you have heard to suit your own needs." Gerry Gambill -1958, Department of Indian Affairs.

Remember: this quote is from 1958, from an employee working in the DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The author of this article exposing this 1958 memo is Cindy Blackstock. She writes in the article about her knowledge of working on First Nations Children's equity for over 30 years in present time.

Cindy Blackstock- " with a few tweaks and language, this document reads like the 2021 roadmap used by Canada towards First Nations children today."

Read the entire article. Must also read 2 links at end of article titled: "Indian Residential Schools" and "Reconcilation"


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