Remember on #OrangeShirtDay that even though the last residential school closed in the 90s, under colonialism and white supremacy, violence never disappears it only reinvents itself. The violence of residential schools is exported to a myriad of state institutions:

Child welfare organizations across the country target, criminalize, intimidate, coerce and abuse Indigenous communities, leading to family separation, destruction of kinship ties and feeding the ongoing cultural genocide

Carceral systems across the country ( both criminal & psychiatric incarceration) disproportionately target Indigenous communities, separating families, perpetuating physical & sexual violence against Indigenous communities, the trauma of imprisonment/bondage is intergenerational

The especially poor care of Indigenous elders, especially within the context of over 1/3 of people who are homeless are Indigenous in Toronto, is the consequence of manufactured poverty & land theft/resource extraction. Elders are living archives of Indigenous knowledge

In many Indigenous communities young people have no access to schools in their home communities & have to fly into other cities and RESIDE AT SCHOOL. Many have to choose between kinship & education - experiencing racism & abuse in these schools/residences

The physical, sexual, spiritual, cultural and intergenerational violence is ongoing, with the co conspiracy of the healthcare, education, Carceral and child welfare systems. Under colonialism violence never disappears it only becomes more insidious

It's a dangerous thing to frame colonial systems and violence as historical. Its an ongoing project, we are not free and we are not absolved.

@threadreaderapp