In my interview with Michelle Good, author of "Five Little Indians" she made reference to a Canadian government official at Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, using that hideous term Fascists in 1930s Germany used "Final Solution" As the author told us,this was about children
dying in alarming numbers, of Tuberculosis which was highly infectious, killing #IndianResidentialSchool children at double the rate that was being seen on the reserves. That didn't bother the senior civil servant at the Dept of Indian Affairs. These are his words.
"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness due to habitating so closely in these schools and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages.
But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this department ( Indian Affairs ) which is geared towards the final solution of our Indian problem" Duncan Campbell Scott - Deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs 1913 to 1932.
"Final Solution" and "Indian Problem" This is the language used by architects of #Genocide and they don't use quotation marks around the words. I do that because they need to be seen as rare, cruel & repulsive. But at Indian Affairs they were used in a matter of fact way.
And so the idea of ending the "Indian Problem" by ending the "Indian" was considered normal. Once again, that's how architects of #Genocide view their actions. They don't see themselves as criminals. They see themselves as serving their country. In this case, a senior
civil servant was on record being just fine w Indigenous children dying at a faster clip in #IndianResidentialSchools, because in his genocidal mind, it was a good thing. Why did Jody Wilson-Raybould reject an offer to lead the Department of Indian Affairs (Indigenous Services)?
Because she knows Canadian history.@Puglaas 
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