A young, anti-racist college instructor named Sarah Beaulieu said she used ground-penetrating radar to find two hundred fifteen bodies that were supposedly in the Kamloops residential school in British Columbia.
The New York Post, however, has dubbed it the “biggest fake news story in Canada”, claiming that the Kamloops mass grave was debunked by academics.
“Pope Francis issued a formal apology on behalf of the Catholic Church, which ran many of the residential school facilities and asked for God’s forgiveness. He said he planned to visit Canada later this year to further assist in healing and reconciliation.
But a group of about a dozen academics in Canada don’t believe the whole story.
‘Not one body has been found’, Jacques Rouillard, who is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal, told The Post. ‘After …months of recrimination and denunciation, where are the remains of the children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School?’
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc spokesman Larry Read confirmed to The Post this week that no bodies have yet been exhumed from the Kamloops school and no dates have been set to start excavations. He added that the report showing the results of the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has not been released by the band but may be at some point in the future.
First Nations people pay tribute to the children whose remains were ‘discovered’. Within days of the announcement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decreed that all flags on federal buildings fly at half-mast.
First Nation members had long believed that the area held the remains of Kamloops students, according to both Casimir and Read. When they decided to use federal funds they got during Covid to contract with an expert to look for the remains, the results were lightning quick, Read told The Post.
On May 17, 2021, the band hired Sarah Beaulieu, a young anthropologist from the University of the Fraser Valley, to scan and survey the site. Beaulieu scanned the site between May 21 and May 23 and the band announced her shocking findings on May 27.
Beaulieu said that remote sensors picked up ‘anomalies’ and what are called ‘reflections’ that indicate the remains of children may be buried at the site. Beaulieu did not respond to emails sent by The Post.
‘My findings confirmed what Elders had shared’, Beaulieu said after she presented a report about her work in July 2021 that did not include specific evidence. ‘It’s an example of science playing an affirming role of what the Knowledge Keepers already recognized’.
After the announcement of a mass grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, the Pope issued a formal apology on behalf of the Catholic Church, which ran many of the facilities.
The ‘Knowledge Keepers’ are living guardians of the cultural traditions of regional, local and indigenous communities.
Since the Kamloops discovery, investigators using ground-penetrating radar say they’ve located what may be the unmarked graves of another 800 or so children at residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, according to reports.
But, like Rouillard, Tom Flanagan, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, isn’t buying any of it.
Tom Flanagan, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, doubts the findings, calling it ‘the biggest fake news story in Canadian history’.
‘This is the biggest fake news story in Canadian history’, Flanagan told The Post. ‘All this about unmarked graves and missing children triggered a moral panic. They have come to believe things for which there is no evidence and it’s taken on a life of its own’.
Strangely, Rouillard, Flanagan and their associates have an ally of sorts in Eldon Yellowhorn, a professor and founding chair of the Indigenous Studies department at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Yellowhorn, who grew up on a farm on the Peigan Indian reservation with many family members who attended residential schools, is both an archaeologist and anthropologist. He is part of the Blackfoot nation. He’s been searching for and identifying the grave sites of indigenous children at residential schools in Canada since 2009 after being hired by Canada’s powerful Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Many of the graves he’s identified at residential schools in other parts of the country, though, come from actual cemeteries and it’s not always clear how they died.
Some of those found had succumbed to disease, Yellowhorn said, citing one cemetery where it became apparent many children perished from the Spanish flu a little over a century ago.
As Yellowhorn sees it, the actual evidence for the mass grave at the Kamloops site is thin”. -Dana Kennedy, New York Post
Yet none of this information stopped Pope Francis from finishing up what he calls a “pilgrimage of repentance”.
“Pope Francis said Canada’s historical system of residential schools for indigenous children, many of which were run by Catholic organizations, amounted to a form of genocide.
‘To take away children and change their culture, change their thinking, change their traditions and change a race, let’s say, an entire culture…It’s true, it was genocide’, the pope told reporters accompanying him on his flight to Rome late Friday after six days in Canada.
During his visit, the pope repeatedly apologized for Catholics’ role in managing the residential schools, which a 2015 report funded by the Canadian government described as a system of cultural genocide. The pope didn’t use the term ‘genocide’ in his public remarks in Canada. He told reporters aboard the flight that this was only because the word ‘didn’t come to mind. But what I described was genocide’.
For more than a century, government-sponsored residential schools in Canada enrolled indigenous children—often by force—to assimilate them to white culture. Many students were also sexually or physically abused”. -Francis X. Rocca, Wall Street Journal
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| Pope Francis met members of an Indigenous tribe during his welcoming ceremony at Edmonton International Airport, in Alberta, Canada |
When people whose identity is under assault try to preserve their unique status as a people, the term “racist” is used against them in a pejorative manner by individuals who attempt to destroy all independent aspects of identity, language, blood, religion, and culture in that group of people.
“While many people believe that the term racist was first coined by the Communist – specifically Trotsky, it was actually coined decades before Trotsky had used the term. Trotsky applied the word ‘racist’ to Slavophiles who opposed Communism and the word he used in his 1930 memoir The History of the Russian Revolution was ‘racistov’, which translates to ‘racism.’
However, according to NPR’s Codeswitch, the Oxford English Dictionary‘s first recorded utterance of the word’ racism’ refers to a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902. Pratt was railing against the evils of racial segregation, claiming: ‘Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or hinders their growth. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism’. However, Pratt is better remembered as the man who coined the phrase ‘kill the Indian …save the man’, as a reference to the efforts to educate Native Americans.
‘A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is the race which should be dead. Kill the Indian in a person, and save the man’.
In October 1879, Pratt took over the Carlisle Barracks in Cumberland County and opened the Carlisle Indian School. He served as a superintendent of the school for the next 25 years. Pratt believed that the Indians could be assimilated into the mainstream of American life through education. To achieve that goal, he required them to speak English and felt that the Indians should be isolated from their home environment in order to successfully assimilate into American society”. -Goran Blazeski, The Vintage News
Those who objected to their tribal identity being destroyed were deemed “racist” by their conquerors and had their children subjected to propaganda intended to indoctrinate them into believing that being opposed to equality or against uniting all diverse peoples of the world under the Satanic principle of one world, one race, and one ruler is a sign of ignorance and poor moral character.
One wonders whether these people will begin to grasp the essential irrelevance and disastrous nature of so-called group “learning”.
“The Oklahoma State Board of Education disciplined two school districts for violating a new law that prevents Critical Race Theory, from being taught in the public school system last week.
The board first considered an incident with Tulsa Public Schools in which a third-party vendor allegedly held a training session for teachers that included elements meant ‘to shame white people for past offenses in history’”. -Lawrence Richard, Fox News
These people had nothing to do with creating the society they are seeking to rule over. They’ve coopted our institutions in the interests of social justice which rendered them unable to fulfill their primary functions.
The public schools can no longer educate, so people will have to turn to homeschooling. The universities can no longer provide satisfactory liberal arts educations, so people will start becoming technologically-assisted autodidacts.
Parents and students simply do not have to participate in a bureaucratic system that is built around union benefits, teaching credentials and ludicrous academic theory.
It is very difficult to engineer a society without control over the children. They are, to paraphrase Lenin, the high ground.