![]() ![]() The government and mainstream Christian Churches acted in strategic solidarity in a long campaign structured to annihilate Indigenous cultures, both figuratively and literally. ![]() Residential Schools, the last of which closed in the mid-1990s, were an instrument purposefully designed to undermine the culture and nuanced connections of Indigenous Peoples to time, each other, and the environment. Overall, this chapter is yet another tragic dimension in the history of settler colonialism in Canada. Many of the children who did return home were scarred for life, and this trauma then had an impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of future generations. They knew that some of their children never came home from these institutions but their concerns went unheard or were dismissed. The unearthing of the graves shocked many non-Indigenous Canadians, but it came as no surprise to Indigenous Peoples themselves who had long maintained that the graves were there and more would be discovered. This unusual occurrence was in recognition of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves containing the remains of Indigenous children on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools. ![]() Fanon’s work, Wild argues, continues to engage people by its brilliance, rage, analysis, and hope that the poor can be the authors of their own destiny.įrom the end of May until a few days before Remembrance Day (November 11) flags at Canadian public buildings were flown at half-mast. Sixty years after his death from leukemia at the age of 36 on 6 December 1961, and the publication of The Wretched of the Earth, Timothy Wild reviews a new book which reminds us of the relevance of Frantz Fanon. ![]()
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