2023-02-02

@LavalleyJer - Probably another coyote bone

Which scenario do you think is more likely?

  1. After possibly a hundred years, a perfectly preserved child's jawbone rooted its way up to the surface during the exact same timeframe that Red Indians haven't been getting much press about their supposed discovered graves?
  2. The jackpine savages are faking it again?

Blazing Cat Fur

Jeremy is very very upset that last month when yet another Indian Band tried to pull the "we found dead children" when they really only had an unreliable ground penetrating radar scan, Canadians started suspecting there really wasn't a wolf after all. Sure people like me were pointing out this was bullshit immediately, but it takes time for the self-evident truth of my blogposts to filter into the general consciousness.

As I've noted before, ground-penetrating radar does a bad job at detecting gravesites. If you can't use it to locate a grave you already know exists why would you think it could be used to identify graves that have no direct evidence of existing outside of the scan itself? Every time they dig they find nothing. It shouldn't be surprising that the "215 dead kids in Kamloops" plus "751 dead kids in Cowessess" plus now "2000 (!) dead kids in Star Blanket" lie is laid bare by the fact that, while the poorly named "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" claimed 2800 children died in Residential Schools some of the specific "children" "identified" actually had known fates that ended totally unrelated to their childhoods where they went to a school where hardworking whites tried to educate them.

Betty, as she was known, had earlier attended the Guy Hill Indian Residential School, but at the time of her death was attending Margaret Barbour Collegiate and living in The Pas with a non-Indigenous family.

Since Betty Osborne was not attending an Indian residential school when she died, the inclusion of her name contradicts the claim that the Memorial Register is a reliable record of “Children Who Never Returned Home” from residential schools.

These facts moved one concerned Canadian to ask the NCTR why Betty Osborne’s name is included in the Memorial Register.

After more than three months had gone by, the NCTR senior archivist sent this reply:

The Memorial Register is the result of over a decade of work by countless people and honours the children lost to the residential schools. Many names are added at the request of family members of children they lost who attended residential school. It may be the wish of these families to memorialize their lost children among the names of their schoolmates. This memorial registry is one meant to help Survivors (whose friends were lost) and families (whose children were lost) honour their loss and find peace to move forward. Again this register is meant to memorialize and honour the loss that families felt and continue to feel due to the residential school system.

As we are continuing our efforts on residential school research and helping Survivors and their families to heal, we will not be replying to further questions on the registry.

This official statement by the NCTR that the purpose of the Memorial Register is “to memorialize and honour the loss that families felt and continue to feel due to the residential school system” raises serious concerns. It indicates that the Memorial Register is not a verified list of 2800 missing children, or a verified list of children who “never came home.” It also suggests that the list will continue to grow far into the future as further unverified names are added by family members. If the principle continues to be applied that the Memorial Register is merely a way for family members, no matter how distantly related, to memorialize the name of a child who at some time went to a residential school, it is not inconceivable that the number of names on the Memorial Register could eventually reach the 15-25,000 estimated by TRC Commissioner Murray Sinclair

So who is the one with "garbage opinions"? Acer who Jeremy is so mad at? Or Jeremy himself for being fooled by the same fake trick over and over and over and over again. There's a reason the boy who cried wolf has endured as a story and will for hundreds more years...

The Injuns are lying. Jeremy probably knows they are too, he's just too invested in the lie. So many of them are, and that's why they will always announce absolutely everything except for any actual evidence. Remember when the Kamloops report was "a month" away? They now say whitey is never allowed to see it, which is part of the pattern:

In fact, a private researcher has found BC death records for 225 of the 416 children on the NCTR’s lists for “children who died at schools” in BC, which establish that most did not die at residential schools at all, and most are buried on their home reserves. In some cases the death certificates are signed by parents. The researcher has provided this information to the NCTR – which, as noted, was already aware of it since it has had the relevant BC death records in its possession since 2014. But requests that the NCTR remove from the Memorial Register the names of two hundred children whose deaths were not related to their attendance at residential schools have been met with silence.

The NCTR also declines to make accessible to non-Indigenous researchers the millions of documents it has received from governments and churches, which is particularly troubling since the NCTR is largely funded by the federal government with taxpayers’ money and is currently asking for a $60 million building to house its work. In that context, the senior archivist’s statement that the Centre refuses to reply to further questions is quite problematic. It suggests that the NCTR will continue to mislead the Canadian public by implying that the names in its Memorial Register are verified deaths which took place at residential schools, and that it will continue to place obstacles in the way of non-Indigenous researchers who are merely trying to establish the true number of residential school deaths.

They have to be careful, of course: if people start finding out they're lying about the huge number of dead kids, people might start to think critically about the other lies they tell about the excellent Residential School System.

That's a metaphorical punch to the jaw so hard it should make Jeremy's lower face the skull researchers examine a hundred years from now...