By Lara/Trace
I do not know if readers of this blog have followed what is happening in Canada and their years-long investigation called the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In 2014 I heard Justice Murray Sinclair speak about TRC at Yale. READ HERE. He spoke about their findings and what the Canadian government promised to rectify the abuses in the residential boarding schools. Many churches and provinces were mandated and forced to release their records to the commission.
The definitions of genocide fit the TRC findings. They call it cultural genocide. Children lost their family. Some children lost their lives. Children. This happened to children.
What happened in Canada also happened here in the US. We don’t have an investigation by our government. WHY? I don’t know and I don’t know if it will ever happen.
After the residential schools in Canada, the 60s Scoop took even more children and placed them with non-Indian parents. And it’s not over. It’s ongoing there and here.
South Dakota Corruption TODAY

Some of the main findings of the report include:
- Naming officials who have conflicts of interest including South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard, Lieutenant Governor Matt Michels, Department of Health Director Kim Malsam-Rysdon, former Department of Social Services Director Deb Bowman, State Attorneys Dan Todd and Kim Dorsett, and State Senator Alan Solano.
- Identifying the mechanisms by which the aforementioned officials benefited either in their official public capacities or in private capacities, including reimbursing contractual payments with federal dollars and using their offices to leverage contracts for private institutions in which they were employed.
- Exposing the racist underbelly of South Dakota’s state system, which targets the most disadvantaged group in the state and identifies the Department of Social Services as the division most responsible for the system-wide willful violations of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act.
- Depicting the intersection between the pharmaceutical industry and the foster care system, where those in Big Pharma used disadvantaged foster care children to enhance revenue by encouraging doctors to prescribe the off-label use of powerful antipsychotic medication for mild behavioral issues.
- Revealing the antecedents for the introduction of powerful medication as being traceable back to a program called TMAP—the Texas Medication Algorithm Project.
- Properly framing the current ICWA crisis in a historical context, including how Indians have been deprived of access to their own resources and how South Dakota is launching an assault on the last remaining resource—the Native American children.
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Trace, why do you buy into this TRC minimalization crap? It does more harm than good. “Some children” died? Try 50-75,000. See Kevin’s three websites, which have been telling the truth to 30 million pairs of deaf ears since 1995.
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thank you for sharing Michael
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Lara/Trace, I was introduced to your very fine work by Michael Watson and we are republishing his post on in the June issue of The BeZine.
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Our mission statement is here:
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I would like to invite you to participate with us and share some more of your work on our site. I am currently working on this month’s issue, which will publish online tomorrow and have deadline pressure to day. Perhaps you would visit the site and think about participation and I will email you after the Zine goes up.
Much appreciation for what you are doing and your commitment.
Jamie Dedes
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Jamie I am honored you asked. I am interested indeed! My computer is dying but next week I’ll be up and running…
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Thank you for speaking out and raising awareness about this horrible practice.
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