SA国际影视传媒淲e instill in them a pronounced distaste for the Native life so that they will be humiliated when reminded of their origin. When they graduate from our institutions, the children have lost everything Native except their blood,SA国际影视传媒� said Bishop Grandin.

Say what? Who said that? Surely you donSA国际影视传媒檛 mean Bishop Grandin who Grandin College is named after? You betcha. ThatSA国际影视传媒檚 him. Eschia!

I say remove GrandinSA国际影视传媒檚 name off anything and everything in the NWT.

How could this happen you say? Well, the government was trying to SA国际影视传媒渃ivilizeSA国际影视传媒� Indigenous adults. Shortly after Grandin became the Bishop of St Albert, he realized this SA国际影视传媒渃ivilizingSA国际影视传媒� project would take too long.

He said it would be better to isolate the children from their parents and provide them with a basic education and vocational skills.

And, if you want to know why and who did something, SA国际影视传媒渇ollow the money!!!SA国际影视传媒� Grandin began to promote and lobby for government funding to begin weaning children from their traditional lifestyle.

And, so he began his work of kidnapping our children and brainwashing them so that they SA国际影视传媒渓ost everything Native except their blood.SA国际影视传媒�

But that wasnSA国际影视传媒檛 good enough. He instituted a system whereby our children were taught to be ashamed of their culture and traditional lifestyle, SA国际影视传媒渟o that they will be humiliated when reminded of their origin.SA国际影视传媒�

Not only that, the children were beaten, starved, and tortured for transgressions like speaking their language or speaking to their relatives of the opposite sex. And of course, many, many of the children were sexually, mentally, spiritually and emotionally abused. Not cool at all.

To boot, we now know that over 6,000 Indigenous children died during this forced assimilation in the residential schools, including many in the NWT.

No wonder kids could not relate to their families when they returned home.

No wonder kids lost their languages.

No wonder so many are in pain.

No wonder Indigenous people turned to alcohol.

No wonder people have developed a stereotype of the SA国际影视传媒渄runken Indian.SA国际影视传媒�

GrandinSA国际影视传媒檚 name removed in Alberta

So, is this the type of man we want to honor by naming our buildings and streets after? I think not.

We need to follow the lead of Alberta cities. Edmonton city council recently voted unanimously to remove all city references to Bishop Grandin, including renaming the downtown Grandin LRT station and covering its controversial mural.

In introducing the motion, Mayor Don Iveson talked about the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The next morning, GrandinSA国际影视传媒檚 mural inside the Grandin LRT Station was covered with orange panels. Symbolic? Yup. Remember, we use orange shirts every September 30 to educate people about residential schools. Right on, Edmonton.

The city is asking its naming committee to include Indigenous leaders in coming up with recommendations for a new name for the station.

And thatSA国际影视传媒檚 not all. The Calgary Catholic School District conducted an online survey and nearly 80 per cent of the parents and members of the school district agree that Bishop Grandin High School should be renamed. Yay, Calgary!

A report on the findings says people supported renaming the school because of Bishop GrandinSA国际影视传媒檚 role in creating residential schools and the residential school legacy.

People were also concerned about the Indigenous students within their school district and want to take a step towards the reconciliation outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).

These actions follow the lead of the Calgary Board of Education which passed a motion to change Langevin School to Riverside School. Woohoo. Hector-Louis Langevin was one of the fathers of Confederation and is considered to be an architect of the residential school system.

So come on NWT, if Alberta can do this why canSA国际影视传媒檛 we? Rename Grandin College and remove any other references to Bishop Grandin from public things like buildings and streets.