Christian History 2000 to Present
2000
December 6, 2009: A leader of the FRD in Vancouver, school survivor Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, dies after a severe beating by police. A coroner's report is issued five months later, and its stated cause of death does not match the accompanying toxicology report.(115)
To the memory of these indigenous men and women who died of probable foul play after publicly confronting Catholic and Protestant churches for their Crimes against Humanity.(115)
Willie Sport, Ahousaht Nation, January 24, 2000
Archie Frank, Ahousaht Nation, died January 26, 2000 – Witness to murder at Ahousaht residential school
Charles Wayne Gibson, Cowichan Nation, died October 2002
Joe Sylvester, Cowichan Nation, died January 2003
Elder Virginia Baptiste, Osoyoos Nation, died suddenly in hospital in January 2004 after publicly charging the Roman Catholic church with mass murder
Elder Harriett Nahanee, Pacheedaht Nation, died February 24, 2007 after mistreatment in a Vancouver jail – Harriett was the first eyewitness to describe a killing in a residential school
Elder Nora Bernard, M'ik Maq Nation, murdered December 27, 2007: Nora was the first plaintiff in a residential school lawsuit
Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, Nishgaa Nation, beaten by Vancouver police and died December 6, 2009
Elder Phillipa Ryan, Cree Nation, died April 26, 2010
Chief Louis Daniels, Anishinabe Nation, died May 16, 2010
And to the memory of the more than five hundred missing aboriginal women on the west coast of Canada.
2007
October, 1989: Nora Bernard, a residential school survivor from New Brunswick, commences the first lawsuit against the Catholic Church and government of Canada for harm she suffered at a school. Nora will be murdered in December, 2007, just prior to Canada's "apology" for Indian residential schools.(115)
Bibliography
115. Annett, Kevin. Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, [Online] [Cited: October 2, 2011.] http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/.
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