As Rodney Clifton points out, the residential school grave controversy has morphed from an investigation of the actual extent of an alleged crime into a well-funded exercise in browbeating “colonial” society in perpetuity.
The realists began questioning the official narrative when “215 children’s bodies were discovered” by ground penetrating radar (GPR) in the Kamloops Indian Residential School yard. One of the realists examined the historical records and discovered that in the mid-1920s, clay pipes for a septic field were buried in the surveyed area.
As a result, the realists wondered if the GPR had re-discovered the clay pipes and not the graves of IRS students. To date, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc (formerly the Kamloops Indian Band) has not released the GPR report, and it has not allowed excavations to see what the GPR had picked up.
Surprisingly, none of the 94 calls to action demand that school yards should be searched for the bodies of murdered and buried IRS children. This is important because the commission worked for six years, spent over $60 million, and did not report credible evidence that children had been murdered and buried in residential school yards.
Fantasy is easy, reality is hard. If they allow any digging, they are afraid that the money soaked narrative of dead mistreated children might dissolve into nothing, and the gravy train would end. It is all about blaming other people for their problems and making them pay for nothing in particular. Truth is not a defense against a political narrative and they know it.
The upside of mass immigration is that despite the best efforts of the captured institutions to infuse white guilt into their victims, the notion that a white or tanned individual entering Canada from some shithole be welcomed here with psychological and fiscal debt owed to an apartheid remnant racial legacy represented by an industry of poverty and grievance pimping social parasites is likely a non-starter. The domestic Eloi, destroyed by welfare and institutional dumbing-down go along with the otherwise obvious shakedown techniques of the Indian Industry but people more interested in bettering themselves or those with critical thinking skills have no time for it.
Same ole, get off my land narrative repackaged for themselves.. Our? natives (I don’t own them) have a grievance industry that can be mistaken for the culture itself.. I don’t look up or down on them but I sure do get handed the bill..
A zero sum situation.. Would the children have been better off left alone in squalid conditions?.. The answer to that is obviously no.. The stupid white man never stood a chance against damned if you do and damned if you don’t activism..
It would be nice if the natives made up their minds on what exactly they want us to do?.. Help or get out of the way.. Because both is turning out to be a scam..
An interesting chart to see would be death rate at schools, versus at reserves, but that might be inconvenient
Some of the Residential schools were taken over by local Bands, and ran until the 1980. We know from Stats Can that child accidental deaths on reserves (today) are 4 times higher than off the reserve. It would be interesting to see if the death rate changed after the takeover. Did they go down, stay the same, or increase. My money is on the latter.
A social worker who was part of the 60s scoop explains why it was necessary: ‘Called by neighbors who hadn’t seen the parents in two days. Found house dark with no heat. Crying baby found, her wet diaper frozen to the floor.’
These children weren’t stolen, they were rescued.
100% agreed; not one body; no bones have been found – ever… Whenever I point this out, people recoil in horror. As if I had Native bodies buried in my backyard…
Before I get attacked on this page for my hatred, I would like to point out that my Dad is a registered Metis. He tried to convince my brothers & sisters to get registered; we all refused but one. Thanks to government incompetence, my brother is now officially 100% Native!
So which part of a Metis is the one who needs help for the disability.. The “‘we were here firster” or the foolish Euro?
I think you should get the that registration and then push back hard. Not all Metis are fans of the government handout buffoonery.,
I identify as half-Metis.
The white half.
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Here is an appalling statistic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-youth-child-welfare-1.6796576
74% of youth in the welfare system are indigenous and represent only 10% of the population.
You don’t have to love the CBC or hate First Nations people to realize what this is doing to their communities. And regardless of whether you think they are doing it to their own children, the result is we all pay the price.
“You don’t have to love the CBC or hate First Nations people to realize what this is doing to their communities. ”
Okay, I’ll bite: what type of harm is saving the lives of native children doing to their communities?
It would be easy to define a clay tiled pipe from a series of graves, but I won’t even go there.
You wouldn’t necessarily see the tile. It’s in gravel. No septic fields in Rockwood?
And you would have to have fairly decent ground, penetrating radar equipment, and be competent in using it.
One theory that I heard is that the so-called underground anomolies may be the root balls of apple or other fruit tree that were cut down years ago. As the roots have long since rotted, the space they once occupied presents as disturbed soil, hence the response that it “must be something”. I said it from day one, but not one backhoe will move one bucket of dirt. The native grievance industry is firmly affixed to that crusty nozzle of the government teat and that industry needs its nourishment at any cost or any fairy tale. I may end up being completely wrong, but the last 150+ years since Confederation has proven that the natives have no desire to pull themselves out of poverty, despair and ignorance.
Here’s an experiment: Issue a press release, and announce that you have bodies buried in your backyard. Measure the elapsed time for the police to detain you and “interview” you in custody. Why has there been no police response to the supposed unmarked graves? Could it be that the authorities know the claims to be horse hockey?
Truth and reconciliation. There can’t be any reconciliation without truth and so far the truth has been deliberately and actively suppressed. The grievance industry presently holds the upper hand in that it has the power to punish any who ask the wrong questions such as Professor Frances Widdowson.
They [or “her” from the initial report] also used the lying “mass graves” phrase — unquestioned by the MSM — instead of “graveyard” or even, say, “Potter’s Field” if they wanted to put a pathetic spin on it while still more accurately describing individual burials of allegedly uncared-for persons.
In Saskatchewan – wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles – they found 700 unmarked graves otherwise know as the community cemetery.
We know they lie.
They know they are lying.
They know we know they are lying.
Still they keep on lying.
Interesting people.
Murder most foul,with no statute of limitations has been stated as fact..
Zero investigation.
And nowhere in this world can you buy”Aboriginal Ground Penetrating Radar” a technology so advanced that you can draw certainty from its output,with never a shovel put to the ground..
This technology must be licensed and marketed,for it is worth $billions…Finally our fine “We were here first” Peoples have produced a technology worthy of worldwide adulation..
Oh?
There is no such technology?
So CBC was lying again?
Canada 2023;
“Is that true? Or did you hear it on CBC?”.
A massive slander has been made against our forefathers,shall we seek retribution?
“Finally our fine “We were here first” Peoples have produced a technology worthy of worldwide adulation..”
Yeah, they may have somehow missed the wheel, mathematics and a written language, but they’ve got this…;)
A septic field mistaken for mass graves? There’s a joke in there somewhere, but it’s probably in poor taste so I won’t pursue it.
A long-running grievance today is “Murdered and missing indigenous women”, and you can find “Missing” posters of unfortunate native women wherever you go. If someone said “Hey, I heard a guy talking in a bar, and he said Maryanne Eaglefeather is buried behind the Esso station outside Lethbridge,” you can bet there’d be a police forensics team digging up that vacant patch of ground before nightfall. When there’s a real chance of finding a real body, people take it seriously and act accordingly. These supposed residential school burials didn’t take place a thousand years ago; if bodies were buried where they’re said to be, you would find remains if you dug for them.
The late Rev Margaret Waterchief gave a talk at our church women’s group and was very definite that her time at the local residential school (though not certain if she was in residence or a day school pupil) was really great. She said the teachers were very helpful and encouraged her to further her studies. It was not until she started taking the bus to the nearest high school that she encountered prejudice. In her opinion, alcohol was a greater destroyer than ever the schools were. But then, it’s easier to screw money out of the federal government than Molsons et al.
Got that right. This has become an exercise in browbeating. The thoughtless holus bolus acceptance of all the TRC recommendations by our PM even before he read its content was the start of this spiral of demands. Its not about reconciliation. Its degraded into retaliation. No matter how hard you wish for it you cannot reverse history. Especially when the history contained in the report was based on a verbal history as told by many who were children at the time. Children are notoriously bad historians and the passage of time likely changed and distorted what they thought they remembered through the eyes and understanding of a child. Even if we have a weak judiciary seemingly intent on reversing history, it cannot be done. No one is giving back the land and the majority of Canadians who had no part at all in the perceived injustices are getting fed up with it.. The land is not being given back. The notion that about 200,000 people consisting of roving primitive tribes sparsely spread over what is now Canada held sovereignty over our whole nation is ridiculous. Never mind that the notion of a sovereign country probably never even entered their minds. These are the machinations of todays generation, still a minority and still not taking a full place in society and looking to blame someone else. Its too bad because there may have been some recommendations in the TRC that were worthwhile but the whole thing is thrown into disrepute and has come to be perceived as a money and land grab. Now just another report collecting dust. They have to learn as we all have that our PM has a short attention span unless it involves votes.
“Got that right. This has become an exercise in browbeating. The thoughtless holus bolus acceptance of all the TRC recommendations by our PM even before he read its content was the start of this spiral of demands.”
Very well said (all of it). Trudeau lost me immediately when he accepted the term “genocide” in the report..Stephen Harper, I hope, would have laughed and handed it back, saying “remove all references to ‘genocide’, or this report will never see the light of day”…
(okay, fine…that’s what I fantasize that he would say..;)
He would have said it diplomatically.
Remember – this is the same country now proposing to kill more aboriginal kids than the aboriginals do (did everyone forget Phoenix Sinclair?).
The cause doesn’t have to be genuine. It just has to sell.
Fun fact is that eventually someone is going to get shovels in the ground.
The smart politician is the one that uses the idea of reconciliation as justification for identifying remains so that the existing relatives can get closure.
What kind of barbarian would deny someone that?
Use this argument when the subject comes up and leave them to come up with a plausible reason why identifying remains is not part of finding a resolution…..or admit resolution isn’t part of the plan.
Sort of like a race hustle isn’t it?