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?
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
We have reached a stage where residential schools are being held up as the primary cause of the social, cultural and economic distress in Aboriginal communities, and this has pulled attention away from many other elements.