Eric Large- Indigenous People are Still Being Controlled
So they couldn’t tell lies as such, because your honor, your name was at stake, and your… survival of yourself, and your family, and your clan or tribe- so they had to be truthful. So, I guess I can only rely on that and whatever I say is not meant to hurt anyone, past, living or to exist in the future.
However, the control I guess, in the sense that we are Indigenous people are still being controlled by the government, policy, legislation, court decisions. They’re members of churches, congregation. Beliefs are a form of that continuing control, indoctrination and other processes that are involved that had their origins in the Indian policy of assimilation and integration. These were actual policies.
And these are the ones that are recorded in documents, in archives, libraries, and will eventually be reformulated into books, articles, more research to be done.
So I guess to end on a positive note, I do favor education, public education, such as this forum here. It’s unfortunate there’s not more people here, Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people, because that’s the work that’s being called for, public education and information on the Indian residential school experience.
– Eric Large
Notes:
Eric Large Testimony. SP116_part20. Shared at Red Deer Hearing Sharing Panel. June 6, 2013. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation holds copyright. https://archives.nctr.ca/SP116_part20
