Appeal from Survivors of Canadian Genocide

"They did everything they can to take the Indian-ness out of our people"

Stee-mas and Wahtsek

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Most people in North America still fail to realize that a Genocide of Native American children in Canada claimed approximately 50,000 lives. It is a matter that Canada and British Columbia refuse to take responsibility for.

The act involved taking Native children out of their homes and placing them in 'schools' which were prisons, the children were divided and abused, and murdered. The Catholic Church operated the schools, the interview below is highly revealing of this abuse.

In this video, two indigenous elders and survivors of Christian internment camps, Stee-mas and Wahtsek, describe why the Queen and the Pope must be arrested for Crimes against Humanity.

Their appeal to other countries is to help them ban the Vatican, the Crown and the government and churches of Canada from their territories.

Both elders are advisors to the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (www.itccs.org).

Interviewed on Squamish Nation land ("Vancouver") on April 8, 2013 by Kevin Annett.

A Canadian clergyman, Kevin Annett has for nearly twenty years led the movement to bring to light and prosecute atrocities in Christian “Indian residential schools”, and win justice for survivors. Expelled in 1995 from his former United Church of Canada for exposing murders in that church’s Indian residential schools, and persecuted and blacklisted for his efforts, Kevin is now an award-winning film maker, author, social activist and public lecturer who works with victims of church violence and genocide all over the world. In 2009, he helped to establish the five-nation International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, which is seeking to indict church and government leaders for crimes against humanity.

As a result of Kevin’s tireless efforts on behalf of native people, the Canadian government was forced to issue a public “apology” and reparations program concerning Indian residential schools, in July of 2008. In giving him the name Eagle Strong Voice in 2007, Anishinabe elder Louis Daniels declared, “Kevin Annett is doing what few of his people have done, and that is to speak about the crimes they committed against many of our nations and their children. He has earned a place forever in our hearts and history. He is a brave and prophetic man. I ask everyone to welcome him and heed his voice.” And scholar Noam Chomsky wrote in 2006, “Kevin Annett is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many of those who have received it.”

For more information on Kevin and his work, contact him at hiddenfromhistory1@gmail.com, and see these sites:

www.hiddennolonger.com
www.KevinAnnett.com
www.itccs.org
www.hiddenfromhistory.org