His granddaughter, Kanahus Manuel, one of the leaders of a movement that has been trying for years to stop the expansion of an oil pipeline through BC’s interior, described the purpose of the schools that had abused so many members of her family: “They stole the children to steal the land.”

XREF: Connects to broader histories of colonial land theft and forced assimilation of Indigenous children in Canada. QUESTION: Worth tracing how land dispossession explicitly motivated residential school policy at the administrative and legal levels.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 849