{"id":2020348,"date":"2023-09-02T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-mass-graves-narrative-that-sparked-church-burnings-crumbles-amid-dearth-of-evidence\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:57:14","slug":"canadas-mass-graves-narrative-that-sparked-church-burnings-crumbles-amid-dearth-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-mass-graves-narrative-that-sparked-church-burnings-crumbles-amid-dearth-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of evidence weakens Canada&#8217;s church burnings linked to mass graves."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcanadas-mass-graves-narrative-that-sparked-church-burnings-crumbles-amid-dearth-of-evidence%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=2020348&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--><h2>Questioning the Truth Behind Alleged Mass Graves of Native American \u200cChildren<\/h2>\n<p>It was the\u200d motivating myth behind the torching of\u2063 churches and the toppling of statues, but is it true?<\/p>\n<p>The public was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/28\/world\/canada\/kamloops-mass-grave-residential-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">informed<\/a> in the summer of 2021 \u2062that a mass\u200d grave of Native American\u200b children had been discovered near the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, a Catholic boarding school that\u2064 forced the \u2063assimilation of Native American youth.<\/p>\n<p>But no\u2062 bodies had been\u200b recovered. Instead,\u200c the \u2062conclusion that the \u200cremains of 215 \u200cchildren \u2014 some as young as three \u2014 had been buried at the site was substantiated only by what the New\u200b York Times referred\u2063 to as \u201cground-penetrating \u200cradar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ordeal was seized upon by those \u2064quoted\u200d in the New York Times as \u201ca horrible,\u2062 horrible history,\u201d a\u2064 \u201cnational tragedy,\u201d and a revelation of \u201ca \u200cdark and \u2063painful chapter \u2063in our country\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u2064 follow-up report\u2063 in The Washington Post was \u2062even \u200dmore shocking. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/06\/23\/canada-cowessess-residential-school-graves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> \u2063that there were indications \u2062that a \u2062site \u200dnear the former Marieval Indian Residential\u200b School in\u2062 Saskatchewan was home to 751 unmarked graves.<\/p>\n<p>The claim was reported as the second announcement \u201cin less than a\u2064 month\u2063 as the country\u200d reckons with the\u2064 devastating legacy of one of the darkest chapters \u200dof its history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cowessess First Nation\u200b Chief Cadmus\u2064 Delorme urged Canadians\u2062 to \u2062\u201cput\u2062 down our ignorance and accidental racism\u200d of not addressing the truth \u200cthat this country has with Indigenous people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic \u2062Archbishop of\u2064 Regina Don Bolen \u200cresponded to the alleged finding as well, saying that \u2064it \u2064\u201cbrings \u200bus face to\u2062 face with the \u2062brutal legacy of the Indian Residential \u2062School system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau \u2062called the two findings a \u2064\u201cshameful reminder of the systemic racism, discrimination, and injustice that Indigenous peoples\u200b have faced \u2014 and continue to face \u2014 in this \u200ccountry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long after the report on the alleged grave site at Kamloops before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/vandalism-arson-burning-canada-church-catholic-residential-schools-11627584689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chaos ensued<\/a>. A whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/XS6sW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">55 Canadian churches<\/a> were the targets\u200d of\u200d vandalism or \u2063arson in the month following the first \u2064report. Of \u2064the sum,\u2062 21 churches had been lit on fire, with several\u2062 (primarily Catholic) churches being burnt\u2064 to the ground. Only one arrest was made\u200d in connection to the \u200cattacks.<\/p>\n<p>Other scenes were\u2064 reminiscent of the\u2064 Black Lives Matter riots\u200d just\u200c a year earlier\u2064 in\u200d the United States, with statues \u2063of Queen Victoria \u200band Queen\u200b Elizabeth falling prey to \u200cprotesters in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Demonstrators toppled statues of Queen Victoria \u2063and Queen Elizabeth in Winnipeg \u2062this afternoon during rallies honouring \u200bthe children\u2062 discovered \u200cin unmarked graves on the sites of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-lowers-flags-after-bodies-of-children-discovered-at-residential-school\/\" title=\"Canada Lowers Flags After Bodies Of Children Discovered At Residential School\">residential schools<\/a>\u200b over the past month. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zx0aqPGcOW\">pic.twitter.com\/Zx0aqPGcOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 APTN News \u200d(@APTNNews)\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APTNNews\/status\/1410753619431919618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister\u200d Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PxKMNTMPhhs\">called<\/a> the acts of arson \u201cunacceptable\u201d\u200d before going on\u200d to say \u201cI understand\u2063 the anger that\u2019s out \u200bthere against the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a>, against institutions\u2062 like the Catholic church. \u2063It is real and it is fully\u200b understandable given\u200d the shameful \u200chistory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executive director of \u2064the British Columbia Civil\u2063 Liberties\u200c Association Harsha Walia\u200d encouraged \u2064the\u200d anti-Christian arson attacks in a tweet\u2064 that read \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8035728\/bc-civil-liberties-association-head-resigns-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Burn \u2062it \u200ball down<\/a>.\u201d Walia resigned amid the controversy, while the organization\u2019s\u200b board released a statement celebrating her work on \u200c\u201cequity, diversity, and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But after the burnings\u2063 of\u200d churches,\u2064 the toppling of statues, and the statements \u2064from leaders,\u200d the legitimacy\u200c of the original claims \u200dhas now come into\u2064 question. Here\u2019s \u200dan \u200boverview \u2064of each alleged \u200csite \u2062of mass graves, complete with both the \u2064original claims and the findings to date:<\/p>\n<h3>Kamloops \u200cIndian Residential School:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Claim: <\/b>Ground penetrating radar indicated the presence of the remains of 215 Native American children.<\/li>\n<li><b>Findings: <\/b>The anomalies found by the\u2064 radar \u200dwere not graves \u200bbut rather\u200b appears to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/gravesintheorchard.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">septic field<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Marieval Indian Residential School:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Claim: <\/b>Ground penetrating radar indicated\u2063 that there were 751\u200b unmarked graves on surrounding premises.<\/li>\n<li><b>Findings: <\/b>The grave at Marieval was not a mass \u200bgrave\u200c for\u200d Indigenous children, but a\u2064 Catholic Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Our\u200b Lady of Seven\u2063 Sorrows Roman Catholic Church:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Claim: <\/b>Ground penetrating radar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigenouswatchdog.org\/update\/anishinabe-nation-in-manitoba-prepares-to-excavate-14-anomalies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated<\/a> \u2062 57 \u201canomalies,\u201d including \u2064\u201c14\u200b possible burial sites.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Findings: <\/b>An \u2062excavation <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/excavation-after-14-anomalies-detected-at-former-residential-school-site-found-no-evidence-of-graves-manitoba-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted<\/a> by an archaeological team at the University \u2064of Brandon found \u201cno evidence \u200dof human remains.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the lack of\u2062 evidence for mass\u200c graves of \u2063Native American children at residential schools, those who\u2019ve questioned \u2062the claims have been blasted as \u201cdenialists.\u201d An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980#:~:text=Since%20findings%20from%20Tk%27eml%C3%BAps,fake%20news%20story%20in%20Canada.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> from the state-affiliated Canadian Broadcasting\u200b Corporation warned that\u200b \u201cdenialism is the last step of genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdenialists\u201d at the \u2063core of the article were an unidentified group\u2064 of people who \u2064attempted \u2063to \u2062dig up the alleged \u200cgraves at the Kamloops Indian Residential \u200dSchool in \u2062order \u2063to test \u2064the veracity of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Kimberly Murray, who was appointed as the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and \u2063Unmarked\u200b Graves and Burial Sites associated \u200bwith Indian Residential Schools, argued that \u201cDenialism is violence. Denialism is calculated. Denialism is harmful. \u2064Denialism is hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal Justice Minister David Lametti stated that he was willing to consider outlawing denialism,\u200b penalizing it with criminal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-order-requiring-masks-for-travelers-to-begin-monday-night\/\" title=\"CDC Order Requiring Masks For Travelers To Begin Monday Night\">civil measures<\/a> that punish those who deny, minimize, or condone \u2063the Holocaust.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK HERE\u2064 TO\u2064 GET THE DAILY WIRE\u200d APP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It fueled church burnings and statue demolitions, but is it accurate? In summer 2021, the public learned of a mass grave near Kamloops Indian Residential School. This Catholic boarding school compelled Native American children, raising doubts about the motivating myth. Were they truly buried there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2020349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020348","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\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}