No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.
Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social media video Friday. He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”
Fourteen anomalies were detected using ground-penetrating radar in the basement of the church on the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School last year. Survivors had spoken about “horror stories” in the basement.
The First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg, hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to do the excavation earlier this summer. It is the same team that assists police on archeological digs and excavations in the province.
Kudos to the Band.
They did the right thing.
Incredulous Claims require proper investigation.
What do you know.Written records confirmed by forensics..
“The First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg, hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to do the excavation earlier this summer. It is the same team that assists police on archeological digs and excavations in the province.”
Here is a Chief I might listen to with some respect in the future.
Interesting, i read that differently, what i saw was him saying “this changes nothing”.
At least he was honest that they found nothing even though it did impact negatively on their claims. He gets kudos for that, kudos as an honest politician among many who would have fudged the answer . And that includes non indigenous politicians as well as the indigenous ones. Maybe he was disappointed that there was no evidence of wrong doing but his feelings on the matter did not lead to concealment. Thats refreshing!
I have yet to hear an explanation of why the decision was made to excavate this church basement, rather than the many hundreds of other sites across the country. What made these 14 anomalies more credible? The promoters of this unmarked grave conspiracy theory are too dumb to be embarrassed.
Oral history garbage…
From July 2023.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-manitoba-unmarked-graves-church-basement/
He’s the one exhibiting sinister intent.
“Oral history garbage…”
A long time ago, in a country far, far away, I was a young pupil in an all boys catholic school. Coincidently, a few clicks down the island, there was an all girls catholic school. My school was run by an all men sect, while the girls’ school was run by an all female sect. Oral history among the boys is that there were secret tunnels connecting the two schools, and that wild parties happened in the inaccessible basement…
…or maybe they really happened!
These Indians will keep digging until they hit pay-dirt.
It’s all about the money.
“Digging” in a figurative sense, of course. No actual shovels allowed, those are tools of colonialism.
Of course, if they’re not disappointed, CBC and its listeners certainly are.
Well, perhaps some people still alive can self identify as “buried remains”.
So who is paying for the repairs to the church basement?
University of Brandon? As in “Let’s go Brandon?”
It’s not denialist if it didn’t actually happen.
We call that the truth.
That’s the beauty of “truthiness”.
But they made such great props for the grievance industry and photo ops for the Spawn to take the knee for his fawning CBC campaigners. Why is this guy such a party-pooper?
how is it “denialist” if the evidence shows it never happened?
because it goes against the “indigenous way of knowing” which doesn’t require evidence.
The results of excavation provided a truth narrative.
The marriage of oral history and ground penetrating radar provided a false narrative.
Now I wonder whether the Western Manitoba First Nation to do an excavation will also be the Last Nation to do an excavation.
Before they fill it back in they should put Juthtin’s teddy bear in the hole.
And his wedding ring.
And Juthtin.
And since Canada’s favourite Turd might well be lonely there, ’tis most important of all to include his Butt and the one who actually did the real thinking.
Generously back-filled with silver crucifixes and garlic and capped with an appropriately thick slab of reinforced concrete.
And publicly accessible for visitation, reflection and personal expressions of appreciation, of course…
You’d be required to either put armed guards or a special drainage system on the site as there are thousand of Canadians who’d travel there just to urinate on the spot.
As long as the sanitary management system is of suitably robust non-Lavalinesque design, construction and maintenance the site should easily accommodate any and all pilgrims till well past the day the Turd’s contribution to the National Debt is paid off.
With any and all monies raised from pilgrims to be dedicated in perpetuity to the Debt repayment.
Who knows, maybe that portion of the Debt might end up paying itself…?!!
Good lord, reminds me of the ruling via Section 13 of the HRC-the truth is no defense. Those of us who do not believe the native propaganda are not denialist, we are truth seekers-who refuse to believe oral lore as facts.
Doesn’t anybody care about the
childrenanomalies.Gold. What are these anomalies by the way? Rotten logs?
Remember, telling the actual truth will become a criminal offence in the Lieberal Democratic Peoples Republic of Kanada. Denying the graves existence even after all sites are excavated with no results of graves will not be tolerated.
Chief Derek
Please come see me and bring money,i have found buried children at the bottom of a lake close by to Georgian Bay.
My Raymarine Dragonfly would not lie too me.
All the best: Alex
“…He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.”…
There is an obvious desperation to find one child’s body to confirm a manufactured narrative, a narrative about the past constructed to inflict emotional trauma today. This is a defining element of resistance culture.
As native peoples’ minds (and therefore cultures collectively) are refocused toward constructed narratives regarding the past they will fail to see the present clearly. I would suggest that their children (kids today) are in greater peril (as a whole) than they were in residential schools. If native peoples were to pull back the blankets they would clearly see the creators of this narrative, and for that matter all constructs of resistance culture, are the ones diddling their kids today and that godless communism, the greatest plague of western civilization, has infected their own people.
Thank you for saying this!
The opposite of anecdotes is data.
This church basement is one datum. More please.
The opposite of children is anomalies.
Well, you just say there’s residential school survivor remains at the bottom of the Alberta Oil Sands and your western energy problems are solved.
No need to thank me.
“As a community we were preparing for more than one possible outcome, which meant we would prepare for the worst but hope for the best,…”
Too funny. Yes, I’m sure you were chief.
“An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. “
That simply isn’t true.
The parallels between the residential school narrative and the climate narrative are striking. In no case is anyone allowed to disrupt desperately held theories with inconvenient facts or actual scientific data. To do so is to be a “denialist” on par with those who deny the Holocaust…whose evidentiary basis is founded in mountains of actual data. Also kinda reminiscent of the Covid lab origins denialists.
There is no bottom to the chutzpah of the progtards. “Science” to them is like Frank’s hot sauce; they put that s**t on everything. Or at least they claim to despite none of them knowing the first thing about the method or its demands, the first of which, pace Feynman, being that if your theory disagrees with the data, then the theory is wrong.
If this continues, they’re going to start killing their own kids and burying them in school yards so there will be something to find.
In other news,
“Upon hearing these results, ALL OTHER PLANNED EXCAVATIONS” have been halted; at least until the cheques for those “Sweet Reconciliation dollars have been cashed”
More to follow.
But wait…”This does not mark the end of our truth-finding project”.
Let’s analyze this.
…. ‘He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek’ ….
What would be the difficult truth? There are no graves, is that it? Disappointed? No money can be extracted?
While the conditions at those schools may or may not have been the best, the children learned a lot. Of course, the problem arises when they were forced into it, if that’s what happened. I don’t question it, I don’t know, and with everybody talking, who are you gonna call?
Is it at all possible that all the other ‘burial sites’ would be found as such?
Is that why the chiefs and many of the natives, that had actually nothing to do with any of it, are concerned that there is nothing there?
What is known is, that there was not one actual grave discovered, just something they really, really, really want to have happened. No evidence until they dig.
Are they gonna?
There was no genocide and Trudeau is playing with fire pretending there was.
Even the UN does not recognize “cultural genocide” as real genocide.
“Cultural genocide” is another term for assimilation and is used to get the word genocide into the narrative and the word “cultural” is dropped pretty quick.
The residential schools were not forced and they were a net benefit to natives as they gave them a path to survive in their new reality.
Imagine if you will an advanced alien race populating earth with amazing technology, the “natives” would need to be educated to survive in the new reality.
North American aboriginals were tribal nomadic hunter gatherers that warred with each other, stole each others land, took slaves and killed anything that could slow them down like kids. They didn’t even have the wheel, or horses, guns, math, writing, hence reading, maybe rudimentary agriculture. Quite the cultural shock. They were decimated by new diseases.
People today don’t owe them anything.
You are only owed what you, yourself, have earned.
Denialist = Willing to suspend critical faculties for the approved narrative
The only thing people are denying right now is that children were murdered.