#CoverUp at #KuperIsland : B.C. task force came too late for abused runaways.

When #clergy members at a #BritishColumbia #ResidentialSchool were accused of sexually abusing children in 1939, they were shuffled out of the province. Sixty years later, investigators smelled a cover-up.

The six young #Indigenous boys were reported missing from the notorious institution at 11:30 p.m. on January 8, 1939. They’d taken canoes to escape across the water to their family homes near the town of #Chemainus on #VancouverIsland.

The now-defunct British Columbia Provincial Police opened an investigation into the students’ claims, but after two Catholic clergy were transferred out of province and one staff member was dismissed, no charges were laid.

For a very long time, it looked like the story was finished. But at the end of the century, the #RCMP #Native Indian Residential School Task Force reopened the 1939 case file.

https://theijf.org/cover-up-kuper-island

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ChurchAbuses #ChildAbuse #Injustice #ChildrensRights #Canada #JusticeForChildren #Colonialism #NativeKids #IndigenousKids #FailureToProtect #StolenChildhoods

*White men speak with forked tongues*

The federal government is blocking First Nations leaders in British Columbia from participating in consultations to address the badly backlogged Jordan's Principle children's program, CBC Indigenous has learned.

The move came shortly before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) chiefs' meeting in Ottawa last week, where he touted his past pledge to find "a new way of working together" that includes "welcoming you to be part of the conversations."

However, federal lawyers had just withheld consent for the B.C.-based First Nations Leadership Council to take part in the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal-ordered talks, citing what the government called "practical reasons" — prompting some leaders to condemn the disconnect.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7406446

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #IndigenousBC #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #NoConsent #IndigenousChildren #NativeKids #JordansPrinciple #FirstNations

Some #PrivateLandowners are #refusing #access to #ResidentialSchool #survivors who are looking to perform #ceremony or #search their properties for possible #UnmarkedGraves - a #SenateCommittee heard Tuesday.
Kimberly Murray, who was #appointed by #Canadian #government to provide it with advice on how to handle possible #BurialSites told #senators about her role & #MainConcerns she says she has heard from #Indigenous communities.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada/2023/3/21/1_6322390.html

#KKKanada #NativeKids #EveryChildMatters