So we can see the direct connection between the multi-generational impacts of residential schools and colonization to the lack of culturally-based resources on reserve to the high numbers of children ending up in foster care. But I also want these same inequalities that affect children in health, education and water to end. All of those are things we could do something about.
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"Never once were those motions brought because they felt it was in the best interests of the children," Blackstock said. There’s a famous study called the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the ACE study in the United States, which showed that when children have multiple experiences of harm – it could be a child who is in a home where there are multigenerational effects of residential schools, where there is poverty, where there is no clean drinking water as is the case in 1 in 6 First Nations communities, and where they’re going to a lousy school – if you add up all those things, those experiences are going to play out well through their adulthood. And all these adults who are at risk and vulnerable today were once children who were at risk and vulnerable. But if we plant seeds of justice and equality and culture that breeds self-confidence, we’re going to see those same positive experiences grow throughout their lives. One of the documents that literally took my breath away when I was a witness at the Human Rights Tribunal was a spreadsheet that was prepared by the Department of Indian Affairs about the number of First Nations children in foster care. 0000000016 00000 n
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What outcome are you hoping for with the case that’s you’ve brought before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal?
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Is there anything you wanted to add?
And the Government of Canada says itself that this level of inequitable funding contributes to the growing numbers of First Nations children in care. So I would argue that we’re going to see many of those same harmful effects in this generation of First Nations children that we saw in residential schools if we don't stop what we’re doing right now and make sure these kids have a proper chance to grow up with their families because that’s where they learn their cultures.
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