Facts are facts, in spite of what the New York Times has written on several occasions about unmarked graves of children on the grounds of Canada’s Catholic boarding schools.
No evidence of human remains have been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school for indigenous students, according to the CBC.
Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe told social media accounts that a four-week excavation yielded nothing.
CBC had said that 14 “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. Those who had attended the school, who the CBC calls “survivors of the school,” had spoken about “horror stories” in the basement.
The tribe hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to excavate this summer. The tribe had a pipe ceremony at the beginning of the dig, and built a “sacred fire” to “ensure elders, survivors and intergenerational survivors felt supported.”
According to the CBC, 150,000 indigenous children “were forced to attend residential schools,” with more than 60% of the schools run by the Cahtolic Church. Pine Creek school was run by the Roman Catholic Church between 1890 to 1969.
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it has a record of 21 child deaths at the school. But the idea that mass unmarked graves were at the site has been debunked, with no evidence found for such claims, raising concerns about the claims of the other supposed graves.
Previously the mainstream media went at length with the story that mass graves had been found not only in Manitoba but in Kamloops, British Columbia, at another school campus.
The elders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc also announced the discovery of a mass grave of more than 200 Indigenous children.
“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, said in a statement on May 27, 2021, according to media reports at the time.
But that site has never been excavated, nor have there been any dates set for an excavation. As with the Manitoba school, there were soil disturbances that the tribe speculates are unmarked graves. But that did not stop the New York Times and other media outlets from claiming that there were bodies.
Indigenous group said in 2021 that they discovered the remains of as many as 751 people, who they said were mainly indigenous children, on the grounds of the former Marital Residential School in Saskatchewan, which operated from 1898 to 1996. But there is scant evidence to support this claim since there have been no excavation. If true, it would average about 8 deaths per year over 98 years. No group has given substantiation to how many of supposed graves might be of children.
The National Truth and Reconciliation Commission says more than 4,100 students died while attending the schools, from neglect, abuse, and genocide. In many cases, families never saw their children again and were never told of their fate, according to families and survivors of the schools, which all closed in the late 1990s.
The freaking Pope went to Canada in person to apologize. For a hoax!
Reading comprehension is everything. The only thing that has not been proven is there have been no remains found in the basement. Everything else regarding the abuse of the children by the hands of the priests and nuns has been proven by first-hand accounts to be true.
“Hoax” is defined as a humorous or malicious deception. There is nothing humorous about the abuse that went on at these schools. The real deception and maliciousness will always lay at the feet of the Catholic church.
Why should anyone believe those claims of abuse after it has proven the mass murders and mass graves by activists were lies?
Since comprehension is everything, you should understand when the foundational premise of an issue is disproved,
The rest of the case falls apart and falls into question.
Since you have an issue with hoax how about fraud?
Yay priests. For once you didn’t do it.
Looks like you might even get to poke back!
So, I hope the Times is ready to write a check for the cost!
Did they look under the trees? they usually planted trees over the graves so no one would look there.
The tolerant left burned down churches over this hoax. No denial that there were wrongs by some missionaries, the goal was to help native children find a place in modern society. Many if not most of the children were brought there by family members. Many were also rescued from conditions at home involving alcoholism, sexual abuse, slavery, and witchcraft/shamanism. The folks perpetuating this hoax are looking for attention and money, and often hate Christianity, just as Christ said they would.
Yes, how DARE those priests and nuns give all those Native children an education?
Not a hoax.
A psyop.
Canada’s version of Satanic Panic.
Quote Paul Harvey: “and now, the rest of the story”.
Why can’t someone investigate any families who had children attend these schools and ask them if anyone in their family died at the school? Seems like that would be easy to verify.
Hoax, that served a purpose!
Shocking.
Just as big of a hoax as the McMartin Preschool sex abuse hoax of 1983. That one was inflamed by media coverage also. Nobody apologized afterwards either. One thing they did find was that memories were easily implanted into kiddos by therapists. Some things never change. It wasn’t just the leftists that torched churches in Canada over this. Lots of natives participated in the festivities. Cheers –
What is up with the hyper-PC Canadian fetish against using the word “natives”?
They were NOT “First Nations”, as the natives of North America were never nations. Bands, tribes, chiefdoms, yes, but not nations in the traditionally accepted sense.
My husband, Dan, was working on the North Slope when a group of Archeologists were digging into mounds up there. Dan got into a good conversation with the head guy and he said the remains were of Viking origin but he was forbidden to give out that information. The natives were never the “first” people anywhere. There have been constant migrations of every group. Interesting side note: one morning there was police tape across the door to that guy’s room–he had died. He wasn’t real young but Dan always wanted to know what happened to him.
The years 1916-1918 56 million people died from the (flu) pneumonia actually. How do we not know that a bunch of these kids died from that.?? Polio, TB, fact is most of the things on this planet are trying to kill us. And at some point they will and we will turn up ash or fertilizer or both. 80 years is a blink in time death will get us all.
Reading through the comments, I was also thinking about the different epidemics that blazed through the world in the early years. With so many schools, churches and old hospitals burning up and taking the written documentation in the fire, with entire families/clans/tribes dying out from epidemics, I feel that we will never know who died during those times. Then again, maybe our whole history is a lie. I hope we find out truths within the next five years!
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