With More than Remembrance: Staying True to all the Fallen

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A Reflection on the Twentieth Anniversary of Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day

by Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice

April 15, 2025

(286) Child Killing Churches remain Guilty: On the 20th Anniversary of Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day – YouTube

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high.

If you break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep … From “In Flanders Field” by John McRae

There were only nine of us that first day. Then as now, those who should have stood with us shrank back from confronting the churches that slaughtered generations of children. But fear had no room in we few that Sunday morning, for our minds and hearts were with the fallen.

It was April 15, 2005 in downtown Vancouver, where we first fired the shot that would be heard around the world.

A decade had passed since 1995, when Harriett Nahanee and I first made headlines about the Christian death camps falsely called “Indian residential schools”. Harriett was an indigenous witness to murders at the United Church ‘school’ in Port Alberni. She met me soon after my firing for speaking of the crime from my pulpit. Together we organized public teach-ins and the first Tribunal into residential school crimes. But talking had done little. It was time to confront the Catholic, Anglican, and United Church and bring those child killers to justice.

And so began our escalating protests and eventually church occupations that forced Canadian Church and State to admit to genocide, and sparked a global movement that toppled a pope. But with that victory came a counterassault that killed a dozen of our people and buried the truth we had briefly surfaced at a cost beyond measure. (Exclusive! The day we turned the tables on child killing churches: Historic footage of the church occupation that forced out the truth – Murder by Decree)

Like the crime itself, this grassroots campaign that made Goliath stumble is mostly forgotten now, even among those who claim to know the story. We few survivors and the evidence have been scrubbed from the public memory and lost in the official Night and Fog required by any genocidal regime. So complete has been this erasure that the perpetrators now claim that the crime never happened. Canada’s denial of its homegrown Holocaust has come full circle. And that’s hardly surprising, since the extermination of native people has never stopped.

A few years ago, some of the serial killers of native children dug under their own house and “reported” that they didn’t find much there. Now that’s a surprise, eh?

The staged “dig” at the former Kamloops Indian school was conducted by the RCMP, Catholics, and band council puppet chiefs – in short, the very people who had killed the children. Based on that duplicitous whitewash, various blockhead bloggers are now saying “See? There never were any mass graves of children!” Poof! 60,000 corpses are gone in a flash!

In their hurry to be stupid, the genocide-denying bloggers forget or never knew that even the Canadian government has admitted that half the children were dying in the ‘schools’ for many decades because of deliberate exposure to disease. In 1998, we published the death records from government and church archives proving that fact. We excavated children’s remains at the Mohawk ‘school’ in Brantford in 2011 and had them forensically verified as human. The Principal of that facility, John Zimmerman, wrote in 1948, “We have been forced to bury children two and three to a grave”.

The fact is that the burial teams at the death camps ran out of room, and often the little corpses were incinerated. That’s what war criminals do. I’ve spoken to the people who dug the graves and shoved the bodies into the school furnaces. That’s all been on the public record for a quarter century. (See www.murderbydecree.com)

In the face of this evidence, anyone who still denies this atrocity and how we exposed it is not simply ignorant. They are complicit in the crime. They are also pissing on all those murdered children and on my friends who died to bring out the truth.

Regardless, the crime remains, as does the example of the few of us who named the names and knocked on the front door of evil. The proof that we revealed stands, as does the guilt of these criminal churches. As Harriett Nahanee remarked to me at one of our early church protests, as Catholics yelled obscenities at us,

“You can tell these people are guilty. Just look at how they’re reacting to us.”

The same is true for all of Canada. We can deny who we are and what we have done, but we cannot avoid the consequences of our actions, which are blowing back on all of us now.

For centuries, North Americans have participated in and profited from the worst mass murder in human history and are still concealing the crime and wiping out any of us who reveal it. The continued trafficking and killing of children elicit barely a yawn from so-called “awake” Canadians.

Too long an association with this institutionalized evil has killed our conscience and morality as a people and has produced the present madness engulfing this continent. Now we are all on the Indian reservation and are facing the same extermination. That’s known as the Law of Return. It’s also called justice. And Judgement.

In other words, folks, we deserve everything we get. And we ain’t seen nothing yet.

Now, two decades after we began our seemingly hopeless struggle, what speaks in my heart are the faces and voices of my fallen friends, and those who they fought and died for. I see their radiant expressions as we stood down the priests and cops and turned the tables on the killers. I see Harriett Nahanee. William Combes. Johnny Bingo Dawson. Harry Wilson. Ricky Lavallee. Ron Barbour … and so many others, beaten to death by police or killed in hospitals or in lonely jail cells. But their death is their victory, for they never gave up. And their spirit lives on in any of us who carry on the fight to shut down the genocidal churches and governments and corporations that continue to ravage the earth and the law and the innocent.

It’s time for all of you to break the web of complicity and ignorance that is the price of your participation in this bloody, lying culture. So, honor yourselves as well as the fallen by joining the fight they died to win. Join our campaign to banish those genocidal churches and reclaim their wealth and properties as lawful reparations for their centuries of crime; and to stop the continued extermination of children. What else is there for a free and living soul to do? For in the words of Thomas Paine,

“The valiant are forever triumphant, and even in defeat do they remain great. Such a fall echoes down the ages with an immortality as great as glorious victories.”

To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If you break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep.

Our friends who were killed for confronting the genocidal Canadian churches: They are present!