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If only he knew the reality of Canada. So many Americans and Europeans do today, which is one reason Canadas economy is in rapid decline, our position in major international organizations in peril.
sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nation-allow-tootoo-b-c-residential-school-findings/
Former NHLer Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuk to play in the league, says he was left “reeling” after learning about last week’s discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The 38-year-old from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut — who played 13 seasons in the NHL — posted an emotional letter to Twitter on Friday in which he detailed his “rage” over the findings and his personal connection to Canada’s residential school system, where roughly 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were forcibly sent and where many suffered abuse and died.
“This week has been one of the toughest of my life. The revelations emerging from the Kamloops residential school and the expectation that it is likely the tip of the iceberg has me reeling,” wrote Tootoo.
“The word, school, is not accurate. These were prisons for children who had been ripped from their families. These places were where a nation attempted to annihilate the culture of my people.”
sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nation-allow-tootoo-b-c-residential-school-findings/
Former NHLer Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuk to play in the league, says he was left “reeling” after learning about last week’s discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
The 38-year-old from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut — who played 13 seasons in the NHL — posted an emotional letter to Twitter on Friday in which he detailed his “rage” over the findings and his personal connection to Canada’s residential school system, where roughly 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were forcibly sent and where many suffered abuse and died.
“This week has been one of the toughest of my life. The revelations emerging from the Kamloops residential school and the expectation that it is likely the tip of the iceberg has me reeling,” wrote Tootoo.
“The word, school, is not accurate. These were prisons for children who had been ripped from their families. These places were where a nation attempted to annihilate the culture of my people.”