Rohil's 5th Connection

Rohil--Wow...this is interesting. I've never heard about this. I'd like to learn more about this piece of history...where did you find this information? Perhaps it can be a topic for research next year. --Mrs. Johnson

The Holocaust in Europe was a major part of world history but there is another genocide closer to home that was not very well known. In Canada, from about 1850- 1984, there was a mass genocide of the Native Indian and Aboriginal people. Similar to the Nazi's, the Canadian government was using these Indian's and others as test subjects to many experiments which usually left the people dead. To start off the genocide, the Canadians were putting all children from the groups (indians, aboriginals, and others) into residential schools where they would contract diseases such as tuberculosis. The government intentionally put these children there for them to die. If a child was admitted to a hospital with TB, the doctors were restricted from helping and were forced to leave the children to die. As the years went by, the death rate in residential schools was up to 75%!!!!! To eliminate the rest of the "problem", the medical inspectors/school nurses were removed from schools. The Canadian governments plan was similar to Hitler's because Canada wanted to get rid of the "Indian problem" and Hitler wanted to get ride of the "Jew problem".