Given the name of Baptists‘ mini-tour you shouldn’t expect them to be celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend. The group said of that via Facebook:
“We embark on our Fuck Thanksgiving Canadian Stolen Land mini-tour today. We are playing in Edmonton and Calgary during this “holiday.” Here is a list of Alberta’s Residential Schools. Aboriginal youth were taken from their homes and placed in these schools to have their culture and language beaten out of them. The only thing we should be thankful for is nothing. Fuck your holiday
School names: Location:Assumption (Hay Lakes) Assumption
Blue Quills (Saddle Lake) St. Paul
Crowfoot (St. Joseph’s, St. Trinité) Cluny
Desmarais (Wabasca Roman Catholic) Desmarais-Wabasca
Edmonton (Red Deer Industrial) St. Albert
Ermineskin Hobbema
Fort Vermilion (St. Henry’s) Fort Vermillion
Grouard (Lesser Slave Lake Roman Catholic) Grouard
Holy Angels (École des Saints-Anges) Fort Chipewyan
Joussard IRS (St. Bruno’s) Joussard
Lac la Biche (Notre Dame des Victoire) Lac La Biche
Lesser Slave Lake (St. Peter’s) Lesser Slave Lake
Morley (Stony) Morley
Old Sun Gleichen
Sacred Heart (Brocket) Brocket
St. Albert (Youville) Youville
St. Augustine (Smoky River) Smoky River
St. Cyprian’s (Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Home) Brocket
St. Joseph’s Residential School High River
St. Mary’s (Blood, Immaculate Conception) Cardston
St. Paul’s (Blood, Anglican/Church of England) Cardston
Sarcee (St. Barnabas) T’suu Tina
Sturgeon Lake (Calais, St. Francis Xavier) Calais
Wabasca Anglican/Church of England Wabasca
Whitefish Lake (St. Andrew’s) Whitefish Lake”
Baptists will have their new album “Bloodmines” released through Southern Lord on October 14th.
