Oh, the headlines two years ago were horrific – HORRIFIC.
It was every racist, oppressive, creepy boarding school nightmare scenario come to life, and just one more baseball bat to the reputation of a colonizing, supremacist Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholics had let orphaned indigenous children wallow in miserable, inhumane conditions in their “charity” schools, and when they perished in abject poverty from malnourishment, mistreatment, and disease, they dumped the little bodies in unmarked graves on the church grounds.
The proof was in the pudding – 215 little corpses. Said so right on the ground penetrating radar.
Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
Unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 children have been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.
The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.
The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a “painful reminder” of a “shameful chapter of our country’s history”.
The First Nation is working with museum specialists and the coroner’s office to establish the causes and timings of the deaths, which are not currently known.
The school was the largest one in the system and had been opened from 1890-1950. The grievance warriors of the tribe were ready to track down who the little tykes could have been, and began the process of reaching out to other First Nations. As they said, these were “undocumented” deaths, so who were these poor kids?
…The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said the remains were found with the help of a ground-penetrating radar during a survey of the school.
“To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” Ms Casimir said. “Some were as young as three years old.”
“We sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk’emlups te Secwepemc is the final resting place of these children.”
At this point, no shovel has touched the sod, though. The rumored graves were still “anomalies” on the grainy grey GPR screen.
Didn’t matter. Within days, prominent Canadians were fanning the flames of righteous outrageous outrage.
Approved ~ FS
