{"id":2241604,"date":"2024-05-10T08:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-discovery-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-canadian-children-was-actually-a-massive-hoax\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T08:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:25:09","slug":"the-discovery-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-canadian-children-was-actually-a-massive-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-discovery-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-canadian-children-was-actually-a-massive-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uncovering of Indigenous Canadian Children&#8217;s &#8216;Mass Graves&#8217; Revealed as a Huge Deception"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fthe-discovery-of-mass-graves-of-indigenous-canadian-children-was-actually-a-massive-hoax%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=2241604&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>Three years ago, a sensational story emerged in Canada about a mass grave\u200d of indigenous children at a former\u200d Catholic Church-run boarding\u200d school. Subsequent investigations revealed \u200cit \u200cto be a hoax. The \u2064incident led \u2063to the destruction of Catholic churches\u200d and \u2062false\u2064 narratives, stirring unrest and\u200b unwarranted actions across the country. Efforts to find \u2062human remains\u200d at the alleged grave yielded no\u2062 results despite significant \u2064expenditure. The misinformation \u200dhighlighted deep-seated societal issues and misinformation\u200b propagation,\u2063 demonstrating the importance of critical scrutiny and accurate reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Three years ago, a major story broke in Canada that seemed to confirm every left-wing prejudice against Christians imaginable: A mass grave containing the remains of indigenous children was supposedly discovered on the grounds of what had once been a government boarding school run by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the whole thing was a hoax, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dershowitz-the-blood-libel-comparing-russias-invasion-to-israels-self-defense\/\" title=\"Dershowitz: The Blood Libel Comparing Russia's Invasion to Israel's Self Defense\">modern-day blood libel<\/a> against Christians that ended with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2024\/01\/18\/church-burnings-canada-unmarked-graves-246978#:~:text=tolerated%20and%20justified.-,At%20least%2085%20Catholic%20churches%20have%20been%20set%20ablaze%20or,weekly%20newspaper%20based%20in%20Toronto.\">at least 85<\/a> Catholic churches across Canada destroyed by arson, vandalized, or desecrated. Canadian political and civil society leaders cheered on this destruction \u2014 and then doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to investigate the mass graves and create a \u201csupport fund\u201d for indigenous people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-734153302\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-edc8111b02a7ac53714b4eaa6b4666af fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-edc8111b02a7ac53714b4eaa6b4666af\"><\/div>\n<p>To this day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/news\/no-bodies-found-after-spending-8-million-searching-for-bodies-at-kamloops-residential-school\/54429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no human remains have been recovered<\/a> at the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/possible-mass-grave-with-up-to-9000-bodies-discovered-outside-mariupol-ukraine\/\" title=\"Possible Mass Grave, With Up To 9,000 Bodies, Discovered Outside Mariupol, Ukraine\">alleged mass grave<\/a>, despite nearly $8 million spent looking for them.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t hear the corporate press report on this story now, but in the summer of 2021, it was everywhere. And no wonder, it had all the elements of a just-so story. The mere historical existence of these former boarding schools, which operated from the 1860s to the 1990s, remains a source of outrage among liberal Canadians. The <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 school system<\/a>, as it was called, often separated indigenous Canadian children from their families and communities, forcing them to attend chronically underfunded government schools, the purpose of which was to assimilate and acculturate indigenous Canadians into European Canadian society.<\/p>\n<p>The history here was bad enough \u2014 a racist outrage, as far as Canadian liberals were concerned. But then came news of the mass graves. The Catholic priests and nuns who ran the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia had, it seemed, callously discarded the corpses of hundreds of dead schoolchildren in mass graves on the school grounds. Or so said the Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc First Nation, which claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-colonial-site-in-maryland-discovered-after-90-year-search\/\" title=\"First Colonial Site In Maryland Discovered After 90-Year Search\">ground-penetrating radar<\/a> had revealed the remains near the site of the former school.<\/p>\n<p>In a healthy society, an explosive claim of this sort would have been subject to at least some critical scrutiny. But Canada, like the U.S., is not a healthy society. Major outlets like CNN, NPR, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation simply regurgitated the claim as a verified fact, couching their coverage in the most hyperbolic terms possible. CNN called it an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/28\/world\/children-remains-discovered-canada-kamloops-school\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cunthinkable\u201d discovery<\/a>. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/06\/16\/canada-kamloops-residential-school-children-graves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> the story had \u201cdragged the horror of Canada\u2019s mistreatment of Indigenous people back into the spotlight.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e659e56be6d5898a642f7709ff3b247e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e659e56be6d5898a642f7709ff3b247e\"><\/div>\n<p>Canadian politicians followed suit. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered flags to be lowered to half-mast and demanded Pope Francis come to Canada and apologize (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/indigenous\/pope-francis-residential-schools-genocide-1.6537203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which he did<\/a>, a year later). Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/1398325696431263745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the discovery \u201cis a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country\u2019s history.\u201d British Columbia Premier John Horgan said he was \u201chorrified and heartbroken.\u201d The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2021\/06\/un-experts-call-canada-holy-see-investigate-mass-grave-indigenous-school?LangID=E&#038;NewsID=27141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> it was \u201ca large scale human rights violation,\u201d and called on Canada and the Vatican to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian tribal leaders went further, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/01\/1012100926\/graves-found-at-new-site-canadian-indigenous-group-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> the purported discovery was evidence of \u201cmass murder of indigenous people,\u201d and an \u201cattempted genocide.\u201d They compared the priests and nuns who ran these schools to Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this escalating rhetoric came the arson. Churches across Canada, most of them Catholic and some more than a century old, <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2021\/07\/09\/more-churches-in-canada-and-one-in-la-burn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">were burned to the ground in retaliation<\/a>. Not a few of the targeted churches belonged to indigenous congregations. Many of them were beautiful, historic churches. One was a Coptic Orthodox Church \u2014 never mind that the Coptic Orthodox Church had no historical connection to Canada\u2019s residential schools. Churches that weren\u2019t completely destroyed were vandalized, many of them with the words \u201ccharge the priests\u201d scrawled in red paint.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, local law enforcement had no comment. Trudeau said he understood the anger driving the attacks. Harsha Walia, the executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/daphne-bramham-free-speech-or-hate-speech-civil-libertarian-lights-a-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cBurn it all down.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ae34ab4a55fb9e33d8c5910e9a6c6b0a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ae34ab4a55fb9e33d8c5910e9a6c6b0a\"><\/div>\n<p>It was pretty obvious at the time that this was all a moral panic, ginned up by an indigenous tribe and cheered on by liberal elites who hate Western civilization in general and Christianity in particular. As my erstwhile Federalist colleague Chris Bedford <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/13\/anti-christian-hysteria-has-grown-into-church-burning-terror-and-people-might-be-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported at the time<\/a>, the mass unmarked grave at Kamloops, and the hundreds of other such graves supposedly discovered at the site of other former schools that summer, were not what the outraged left said they were.<\/p>\n<p>In almost every case, they weren\u2019t mass graves, but individual graves, and they were located in cemeteries. \u201cThe reason the graves are \u2018unmarked\u2019 is that the wooden crosses used to mark them and the fence that kept them safe decayed,\u201d Bedford wrote. \u201cIn other words, people have found that an old cemetery contained bodies.\u201d It\u2019s worth noting that they used wooden crosses because the government refused to pay for headstones. It\u2019s also worth noting that these cemeteries don\u2019t just contain the graves of schoolchildren but also of priests and nuns and other members of these communities. In other words, there was no cover-up and no mass graves, just a complicated and nuanced history.<\/p>\n<p>But it was a history almost no one in Canada is interested in exploring honestly. Indeed, many of these old cemeteries with unmarked, individual graves, were detailed in a Truth and Reconciliation Commission report <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lilley-unmarked-graves-were-documented-years-ago-but-most-of-us-looked-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released nearly a decade ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, nearly three years after dozens of churches across Canada (and a few in the U.S.) were destroyed, there is not a shred of physical evidence for the claims that kicked off the hoax, despite millions of dollars spent on fieldwork, records searches, and securing the residential school grounds at Kamloops.<\/p>\n<p>How could this be? After all, the Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc First Nation had claimed ground-penetrating radar revealed mass graves at Kamloops. Chief Rosanne Casimir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-kamloops-residential-school-unmarked-graves-discovery-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said at a news conference<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s a harsh reality and it\u2019s our truth, it\u2019s our history. And it\u2019s something that we\u2019ve always had to fight to prove. To me, it\u2019s always been a horrible, horrible history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked recently about the $8 million allocated to uncover the truth about the mass graves, the Tk\u2019emlups te Secwepemc First Nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/news\/no-bodies-found-after-spending-8-million-searching-for-bodies-at-kamloops-residential-school\/54429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined to comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing, it turns out, was a rank fiction \u2014 a blood libel cooked up to peddle historical grievances, provoke a moral panic, and demonize the Catholic Church and all Anglo Canadians. It worked. And now, three years later, you won\u2019t hear a word from the politicians, media outlets, and liberal activists who perpetrated it.<\/p>\n<p>Understand this dark episode for what it is: a battle in an ongoing cultural war against Western civilization \u2014 a war the West is losing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0d60031eaddba03c266f51d745702f0 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b0d60031eaddba03c266f51d745702f0\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago in Canada, a controversial story surfaced, seemingly reinforcing left-wing assumptions about Christians: A mass grave holding indigenous children&#8217;s remains was allegedly found at a former government boarding school supervised by the Catholic Church. 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