Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State

Abstract

In Chapter 3, "Coming to Grips with Canada as a Colonizing State: The Creator Knows Their Lies and So Must We," Starblanket, drawing on the cognitive legal theory of Steven Newcomb, evokes the metaphor of a brainwashing machine to further demonstrate how the residential school system dominated and dehumanized Indigenous children as part of colonialism and the genocidal process (196). [.]Starblanket points out that, after the ratification of the UNGC in 1948, Canada continued to engage in genocidal acts with the forcible transfers of Indigenous children to residential schools and the child welfare system. [.]as Ian Mosby uncovered in 2013, officials conducted nutritional experiments on Indigenous people. [.]it is the only solution for peace and for true justice" (280).