I just wanted to say that I am skeptical of this portion of the narrative.
Were the graves really unmarked? Or were they marked with wood crosses or wood markings that may have been removed (by vandals) or simply rotted away over time as the graveyard became overgrown due to not being kept up? Have we forgotten that these schools date back to the 1800's? This was a time when not everyone had a car or even a telephone.
I've searched all the news stories and I have yet to see any photographs of the site itself. It's just being fed to us that they were unmarked and assumed that it was to cover up mistreatment.
So many assumptions are being made without even looking at the death records (which do exist, it would just be a lot of work to dig them out of non-digital archives).
As for why the kids were not returned to their parents for burial, the answer is that in cases where parents could not be located, the residential schools became the sole caregiver of the children meaning there would not have been a family to return the bodies too. So, naturally, they would have done their best to provide the dead some sort of burial.
You can't ask for good information when it comes to this stuff. You either take their word and bend over or it's bye bye for bigot-guy.
https://communities.win/c/OmegaCanada/p/12ih50dzcZ/215-bodies-found-heres-what-you-/c/
I live in an old farm community. It is not uncommon to come across family grave sites in the middle of nowhere with a few dozen gravestones dating back to the 1800’s. If families didn’t have the money to commission graves stones to be made, I’m sure they would have used more common wooden crosses that would be long gone by now.
So if you were to x-ray scan random farm fields in my area. You will find mass unmarked graves. But this does not mean these people were murdered.
Has there been any proof of there being bodies?
They don't in most cases, especially documents for time before 1960 were destroyed en masse.
"The number of students who died at Canada’s residential schools is not likely ever to be known in full. The most serious gap in information arises from the incompleteness of the documentary record. Many records have simply been destroyed. According to a 1935 federal government policy, school returns could be destroyed after five years, and reports of accidents after ten years. This led to the destruction of fifteen tonnes of waste paper. Between 1936 and 1944, 200,000 Indian Affairs files were destroyed. Health records were regularly destroyed. For example, in 1957, Indian and Northern Health Services was instructed to destroy “correspondence re routine arrangements re medical and dental treatments of Indians and Eskimos, such as transportation, escort services, admission to hospital, advice on treatment, requests for treatment, etc.” after a period of two years. Reports by doctors, dentists, and nurses were similarly assigned a two-year retention period."
https://chaireconditionautochtone.fss.ulaval.ca/doc/Publication/Honouring-the-truth-reconciling-for-the-future-01.pdf
This residential school is 5 minutes away from the city center of Kamloops. If there ever was a graveyard with wooden crosses behind the school, people would know of it.
Five minutes away by what? Cars or helicopters that didn't exist then?
The school a just a kilometer away from the city of Kamloops. You can run the distance in 5 minutes.
Google maps says that it's a 44 to 50 minute run (assuming the highway bridge was always there, which is most likely wasn't).
So when you say "5 minutes away," you're a filthy liar, just like the CBC.
In any case, the fact that there were records to destroy shows that they actually were keeping a record. Should they have been digitized? Probably, but maybe they didn't have the technology.
It's am assumption that they did all this to cover something up. Like I said before, many of these kids didn't have a family or were unwanted. They died from natural causes in most cases, and burying them is the obvious thing to do.
The city of Kamloops starts right after the bridge. That's a kilometer. You added another two to get through the whole city.
https://imgur.com/EurWssd.png
Also, 3.4 km in 45 minutes is walking not running.
No I didn't. That's where downtown is. In the 1800's the city would have been smaller as well.
It wasn't much smaller. Here is a map from 1930. The city already goes up to the 14th avenue, just like today.
https://ekistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/6-Insurance-Plan-of-Kamloops-thompson-river-city-centre.jpg
The residential school was build just 5 minutes away from the city, even in the 1800s.
From what I've seen, it can only really tell that earth has been moved to indicate that something was buried there. They couldn't even actually "see" a coffin, let alone bones, let alone that the bones belong to a child of an exact age.
Didn't you know the natives were pacifists and environmentalists before dirty whites arrived? When they drove 500 buffalo off a cliff it was for the ENVIRONMENT dumb dumb. They had no tribal territory disputes and no weapons at all before we arrived.
Exactly. What are they suppose to do with the rotting body? It would have started to stink after like 4 days. Sanitation reasons require that they be buried right away.