Posted on 05/24/2024 6:03:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A study of the Canadian Indian schoolchildren mass murder hoax is accused of "hate" and "denialism."
The Quesnel, British Columbia city council's censorious response to the revealing, well researched, and well documented book, Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us And the Truth About Residential Schools (editors Tom Flanagan and Chris Champion, 2023) is, sadly enough, more grist for the woke mill. Cancel culture is running amok throughout the West and Quesnel (Pronounced Quinn-L) is merely its microcosm.
The book is a collection of essays by academics, journalists, and others debunking claims that First Nations children went missing (victims of foul play by staff) while attending Canada's former -- often church-run -- Indian Residential Schools and/or were buried in unmarked graves on the property of those schools, which existed in the late 19th and much of the 20th century, with he last one being shuttered in the 1970s. For the record, none of these alleged unmarked graves have been discovered, nor have there been any missing children, although some, to quote Tom Flanagan, one of the book's editors, "may have been forgotten by their relatives."
Nevertheless, fireworks flew when Pat Morton, wife of Quesnel mayor, Tony Paull, read Grave Error, liked it, and purchased ten copies for those she thought would be interested. One of the recipients was the mother of a Metis (mixed French and First Nations ancestry) city councilor, Tony Goulet. He, along with the local Lhtako Dene Nation, attended the March 19th council meeting to accuse Morton and the book of "hate" and "denialism." Other First Nations groups subsequently piled on. As is typical these days, all council members, including Mayor Paull, voted to denounce the book, although Paull, to his credit, has, at least to date, not caved to demands
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The hoax that is the likely cause of the rash of church arson attacks recently in Canada.
Apparently freedom is dead in Canada......................
They have churches in Canada.?? Who knew.!
There is a LOT OF MONEY in keeping this hoax alive - and so the Left will fight tooth-and-nail to keep it going.
Notice how those “MASS GRAVES” in which nothing was found have now been downgraded to simple “unmarked graves”? I found that children who died of diseases were buried on site because, at that time, it was illegal to ship an infected body back home. No one would spring for stone markers so wood markers were used which eventually rotted away.
There are lots of cemeteries with “unmarked graves” everywhere, even near here. Natural stone markers but no names. Many tribes felt the dead should never be mentioned again as it might stir up an “evil spirit.”
There is a big cemetery(San Juan Mission Cemetery) south of Farmington NM much the same. Most died in the flu epidemic of 1918 and have no names as the tribes feared mentioning the dead. We first saw it back in 1955. It is still there.
The pope wore feathers and apologized
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