Prince Charles and Residential Schools
Prince Charles, the man who would be king is getting ready for his royal trip to Canada May 17-19, but he has a nasty recurring dream.
His grandchildren George, Charlotte, Louis, Archie and Lilibet are captured by dark-skinned forces who shaved their heads and put them in residential schools. They are punished if they speak English. Instead they are taught strange languages like Ojibwe.
That is not a dream for Canada’s First Nations. It is part of his mother, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. British colonization was stolen land, and kids come with it. The British needed the land to make money, so they removed kids from it. But how? Residential schools were the answer.
Prince Charles, like his forefathers, doesn’t know much about Canada’s aboriginal people so he needs some reading material. He can start with Angeline Boulley’s novel, Fire Keeper’s Daughter.
SYNOPSIS
N’Daunis. It means my daughter. That’s what her father, an Ojibwe hockey player said when the storyteller was born.
Daunis keeps fit by running most days and has a routine. “Prayers begin with offering semaa and sharing my Spirit name, clan and where I am from. I always add an extra name to make sure the Creator knows who I am. A name that connects me to my father - because I began as a secret, and then a scandal.” Page 5, Chapter 1.
When Prince Charles comes to the last chapter, he will have a better understanding of how the British Empire stripped aboriginal people of humanity. He wouldn’t wish it for his grandchildren.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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