FW: Pikanii Residential School Horrors

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The use of  religion to mark Pikanii Children in Canada for the depths of
hell.

Copyright 1999 by  Long Standing Bear Chief

"Judgement is prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools."
>From the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 19, Verse 29

        One day in fall of 1949 Pikanii children at the Sacred Heart
Residential School near what is now the community of Brocket, Alberta,
Canada the teaching of the nature of sin and how  to pray so that one might
overcome evil thoughts was initiated and put into the minds of children
beginning at the age of six among the schools population.The forced removal
of native children from their parents was the law in Canada at a time when
attendance at residential schools was required.

        "They also prepared us for a bad future at these residential
schools" agreed George Yellow Horn and Elizabeth Crow Flag. Both are
members of the Pikanii Nation which is now called the Peigan Nation by the
Government of Canada.

        George Yellow Horn, also known by his aboriginal name of Sikkapii
(White Horse) said, "In the Fall of 1949 when I was ten years old , our
teacher Sister Houle, a Sister of Charity nun, told us we should all line
up in the hallway of the school. We would then be taken into a room where a
medical test was going to be done on us."

        Sikkapii continued, "I remember all the small kids were crying and
screaming. I was very afraid since none of our parents were present and we
did not know what was going to be done to us. We were forcefully taken from
our parents so we knew they were not anywhere near to protect us.

        'When it was my turn to go into the room I saw my friends having
their shirts taken off and their pants pulled down. There were men present
with what seemed like needles.

        ' We were then made to lean over exposing our backside and then the
men made these scratch marks on our backs, and when they were finished they
smeared iodine on the wound. You should have heard the children crying and
screaming."

        Elizabeth Crow Flag, or Yellow Dust Woman, as she is known among
her people, joined in by saying, " The same thing was done to us at the St.
Cryprian School near Brocket. We cried and screamed as well. We have never
been able to find out the meaning of these marks on our backs or why they
were put there. We never believed it was for the purpose of testing for
TB". A survey of five doctors in Alberta does not verify the scratch marks
as being a test for TB.

        On January 29, 1999 at the home of Long Standing Bear Chief in
Browning, Montana the key to the mystery of the stripes, consisting of six
up and down scratch marks became abundantly clear to Sikkapii.

        While reading from a book entitled, "Spare the Child, The Religious
Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse" by
Philip Greven (First Vintage Books Edition, 1992)  Sikkapii was heard to
utter, " So this is the meaning of  what they did to us !!!!".

        Sikkapii had just read a passage from the book that read as
follows, from the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 19, Verse 29: "Judgement is
prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools". He then said,
"This is black magic !!!! This is how the Christians prepared us for the
attack on our Indian beliefs and traditions when we were just children.
They mean to put us in their hell !!!!'.

        There was  stunned silence in the room.

        Now the Pikanii people are preparing for a cleansing ceremony to
rid themselves of the evil put on them when the Christians scratched six
marks  on their backs, three on each side of the spine,  when they were
small children.

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