{"id":1222035,"date":"2022-01-18T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222035"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:22:31","slug":"remember-the-hundreds-of-childrens-remains-found-at-a-canadian-residential-school-that-narrative-may-be-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-the-hundreds-of-childrens-remains-found-at-a-canadian-residential-school-that-narrative-may-be-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Hundreds Of Children\u2019s Remains Found At A Canadian Residential School? That Narrative May Be Collapsing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fremember-the-hundreds-of-childrens-remains-found-at-a-canadian-residential-school-that-narrative-may-be-collapsing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Last year, an explosive report claimed that the remains of 215 children had been discovered at a Canadian residential school.<\/p>\n<p>The remains were reportedly discovered by anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu, who used ground-penetrating radar to discover the remains allegedly buried on the grounds some time between 1890 and 1978, while the Kamloops Indian Residential School operated. The discovery was reported by Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk\u2019emlups te Secw\u00e9pemc First Nation, who said in a statement in May 2021 that \u201c[g]iven the size of the school, with up to 500 students registered and attending at any one time, we understand that this confirmed loss affects First Nations communities across British Columbia and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/remains-of-hundreds-of-children-found-at-canadian-residential-school\">reported<\/a> at the time, no remains had actually been excavated.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery shocked the world and led to widespread condemnation, including from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who released a statement saying the \u201cremains were found at the former Kamloops residential school breaks my heart \u2013 it is a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Canadian government, in a 2015 Truth and Reconciliation report, determined many of the children who attended these schools were lonely, undernourished, and overworked. \u201cFor the students, education and technical training too often gave way to the drudgery of doing the chores necessary to make the schools self-sustaining. Child neglect was institutionalized, and the lack of supervision created situations where students were prey to sexual and physical abusers,\u201d reads the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The schooling system, the government determined in the report, was for much of its existence \u201can education system in name only\u201d and amounted to \u201ccultural genocide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Canadian journal The Dorchester Review is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorchesterreview.ca\/blogs\/news\/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found\">questioning<\/a> the discovery, seven months after the remains were reported. Professor Jacques Rouillard, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Montreal, wrote in the journal that the anthropologist who discovered the remains, Beaulieu, is young and has been \u201can instructor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of the Fraser Valley since 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer preliminary report is actually based on depressions and abnormalities in the soil of an apple orchard near the school \u2013 not on exhumed remains,\u201d Rouillard wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The professor added that new research on the subject was revealed at a July 15 press conference, where Beaulieu slightly reduced the number of remains she claimed to have found from 215 to 200 \u201cprobable burials.\u201d She said that after \u201cbarely scratched the surface,\u201d she found many \u201cdisturbances in the ground such as tree roots, metal and stones.\u201d Those \u201cdisruptions picked up in the radar\u201d led her to conclude that the grounds \u201chave multiple signatures that present like burials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu, however, cannot confirm that what she discovered are the remains of children or tree roots, since the site has not been excavated. Professor Rouillard questioned where an excavation would ever take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy never pointing out that it is only a matter of speculation or potentiality, and that no remains have yet been found, governments and the media are simply granting credence to what is really a thesis: the&nbsp;<em>thesis<\/em> of the \u2018disappearance\u2019 of children from residential schools. From an allegation of \u2018cultural genocide\u2019 endorsed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) we have moved to \u2018physical genocide,\u2019 a conclusion that the Commission explicitly rejects in its report. And all of this is based only on soil abnormalities that could easily be caused by root movements, as the anthropologist herself cautioned in the July 15 press conference,\u201d Rouillard wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The professor noted that anthropologist Scott Hamilton, \u201cwho has worked on residential school cemeteries for the TRC between 2013-2015,\u201d said people need to be careful about relying on ground-penetrating radar because the soil could have been disturbed by any number of occurrences not relating to the burying of bodies.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, an explosive report claimed that the remains of 215 children had been discovered at a Canadian residential school. The remains were reportedly discovered by anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu, who used ground-penetrating radar to discover the remains allegedly buried on the grounds some time between 1890 and 1978, while the Kamloops Indian Residential School operated. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}