I have just ordered this book after watching this video, by one of the authors:
The basic thesis is that there is no conclusive evidence for any mass graves at residential schools. I tend to believe that too, if no excavations were done, and they are just going by ground penetrating radar.
There's no question that residential schools were generally a shit idea, we should recognise this and reparations should be made. But inventing stuff just makes everything worse. Stupid Trudeau went along with these mass grave theories and even enacted laws to make it a crime to disagree.
All this does is make the savage Canadian suspicious of any indigenous claims. I found the attitude of the woman in the video kind of hostile and confrontational. She may be right about the facts. But this is not the way get real reconciliation. Neither is accepting any old story told by either side.
The basic thesis is that there is no conclusive evidence for any mass graves at residential schools. I tend to believe that too, if no excavations were done, and they are just going by ground penetrating radar.
There's no question that residential schools were generally a shit idea, we should recognise this and reparations should be made. But inventing stuff just makes everything worse. Stupid Trudeau went along with these mass grave theories and even enacted laws to make it a crime to disagree.
All this does is make the savage Canadian suspicious of any indigenous claims. I found the attitude of the woman in the video kind of hostile and confrontational. She may be right about the facts. But this is not the way get real reconciliation. Neither is accepting any old story told by either side.
