"Um... Lizzie, sorry if this offends you... BUT then why does your subject title talk about the 60s, if "This is an on-going situation, NOT history", like you state? Unless I'm interpreting it wrongly... and this is really about people who were in boarding/residential schools talking a more modern situation.. as in the "telling our stories" and comparing them to the modern one? Or people in the modern situation "telling our stories?"..."


Don't be sorry. Yes it offends me.

If offends me because rather than talk about the outpouring of grief to be seen on the film, rather than talk about the fact there are now more Indian children in care than ever before, even more than during the peak of the Residential Schools horror, you choose to talk about my choice of title.

I find that utterly bizarre, but sadly, not surprising.

If you want, please ask Max or Joe to a title you deem appropriate.

Thanks.




>>>>From gnu:"Where did I say anyone was 'selling' children?"

Ahhhh... did YOU watch the video?

Okay. That's enough for me. I am gone. Have fun. gnightgnu. <<<<<

OK, let me get this straight. The second speaker mentions, around 7.00 minutes in, about a new Law/Bill being looked at, regarding adoption. In this he includes International Adoption of Native children. He says, just once, that this would allow mothers to get $20,000-$40,000 for their children. Is he speaking of what could happen in the future? I've no idea. I do not know what is being proposed in this Bill.

At no other time, throughout 1 hour and 12 minutes approx. is this mentioned by anyone else.

I would hope you looked at the entire film, not just the first 7 minutes?

From 18.00 minutes in you will hear the 3rd (and main) speaker talking most eloquently about what happened in the past and what is happening now, to this day. You will hear him say that in the 2000s "......There are more aboriginal children in the care of Provincial Ministry today than there ever was at the peak of the Residential Schools era.."

At 39.00 minutes in, you will hear a woman saying that a family was offered $5,000 for the Treaty Rights of their child, who had been taken into Care, for adoption with a white family, as I recall...although the sound is a little unclear at this point.