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The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact-Check Two Years Later
Corrective History History Wars Indian Residential Schools Kamloops Nina Green
TWO YEARS AFTER the claim rocked the world that “the remains of 215 children” had been found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, we know much more than we did at the time.
“They Were Not Forced”
Brian Giesbrecht History Wars Indian Residential Schools Kamloops Nina Green Thomas Flanagan
The claim that 150,000 status Indian children were 'forced' to attend residential schools is misleading at best, write Nina Green, Brian Giesbrecht, and Tom Flanagan. For example, enforcement of compulsory attendance was often lax to non-existent.
Another Fraudulent Indigenous List?
Corrective History First Nations Genocide Myth Indian Residential Schools James McCrae Kamloops Tom Flanagan
There are in fact B.C. death records for 225 of the 416 children who the Truth and Reconciliation Commission claims "died at schools." The TRC has those records. Most did not even die at school and are buried on their home reserves. Is this another example of TRC fraud and deception?
The False Narrative of Residential School Burials
1619 Project Brian Giesbrecht Corrective History Indigenous Kamloops Mass Graves Hoax Thomas Flanagan Williams Lake
There is no documentary or forensic evidence of murdered and secretly buried indigenous children or other bizarre and fantastical stories, write Tom Flanagan and Brian Giesbrecht
Is Indigenous knowledge infallible? Yes, says Marc Miller
1619 Project British Columbia Cancel Culture First Nations Genocide Myth History Debates History Wars Indian Residential Schools Indigenous Kamloops
"Mr. Miller ignores the well-known fallibility and embellishment of oral accounts, called 'tall tales' when they are known to be exaggerated, and suggests that evidentiary concerns don’t apply" By Hymie Rubenstein Corpses of SS victims in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. After years of searching based on phantasmagoric rumours, no remotely comparable evidence has ever been found at a residential school in Canada. THE 16 Tweets simultaneously posted by the Hon. Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, on Jan. 27, 2022, were not independent tweets. Instead, they form a single 580-word opinion piece (that can...