Questions about the potential for widespread unmarked burial sites of indigenous children in Canada remain after excavation of one site failed to turn up bodies.
St. Johnsbury Police Chief Timothy Page on how his small Vermont town has been dealing with migrants.reportedly failed to turn up evidence of mass unmarked burial sites, raising questions over the claims of widespread indigenous graves across the country.
Reports of potential mass graves containing the remains of indigenous children across Canada began circulating in May 2021, when the leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced that a radar survey near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School had discovered"confirmation of the remains of 215 children," according to a report from the National Post.
"I recognize these findings only deepen the pain that families, survivors, and all Indigenous peoples and communities are already feeling, and that they reaffirm a truth that they have long known," The somber language came despite the Cowessess First Nation, who discovered the site and announced the preliminary finding, cautioning that the possible bodies were discovered at a cemetery and were not part of a"mass grave" but a series of unmarked graves.
Reached for comment by Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations said that Canada is"working in partnership with communities to provide the resources needed as they continue the very important and challenging work of locating, identifying and commemorating the remains of those who were stolen from their families and prevented from coming home."
"I don’t like to use the word ‘hoax,’ because it’s too strong, but there are also too many falsehoods circulating about this issue with no evidence," Jacques Rouillard, a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal, told the New York Post in a report about the graves last week.
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