Reports of genocide against native children in Canada appear to be at least for now greatly exaggerated:
Four weeks of excavation work at a residential school in Canada reportedly failed to turn up evidence of mass unmarked burial sites, raising questions over the claims of widespread indigenous graves across the country.
Minegoziibe Anishinabe, an indigenous group also known as Pine Creek First Nation, has excavated 14 sites in the basement of a Catholic church near the former Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba over four weeks this summer, but has yet to uncover bodies at the sites that were suspected of being possible burial locations of indigenous children, according to a report from Global News.
The work comes after ground-penetrating radar used at the sites detected what were described as “anomalies” at 14 locations in the basement of the church, part of a series of discoveries over the last two years in Canada that were reported to be “mass graves” of children who had attended the country’s residential schools.
There’s a significant part of the western left that’s disappointed.
This was a flat out hoax, perpetrated by left wing scum balls. Allegedly, it was started by at least one tribe member. If I were a tribal elder, heads would roll.
Well, hang on there. Just because there’s no proof that Christian white people weren’t mass murderers as well as teachers and missionaries, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Moreover, physical proof and evidence is such a white concept anyway.
So, those so-called anomalies are actually what?
Who cares whether it happened or not? A whole lot of activists got a sh*tload of money – and that is all that matters.
“First Nations”? The ordinal is not unintended. The hierarchy is clearly defined, the needs of the first nation come before the needs of any other nation.
On this date in history, some people did something.
But it was years ago. What difference, at this point, does it make anymore?
One of the chanting points concerning Indian burial sites is the claim that “the sacred bones of our ancestors are being disturbed.”
Which raises an intriguing question: are the bones actually related to anyone currently living in the area?
Certainly this is not an issue in the case of relatively recent sites, but in a number of cases, DNA analysis has revealed that the bones found in a number of burial sites have no link to any living person.
People move around, people displace people, people massacre other people. We know from history and DNA analysis that the Celts once dominated most of Europe, but now their relatives are found mostly on the edges in Britany, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. So if a German were to howl about the graves of their (Celtic) ancestors, in many cases it would be right to scoff.
So too should it be in the Americas.
It annoys me when people misuse language. “Genocide” is Latin: Geno – tribe or clan – and cide – to kill. Genocide means to kill members of a different tribe or clan, all of them, extermination, wipe them out completely.
If the White settlers had intended genocide, they had the firepower and manpower to accomplish it. Taking Indian kids away from the ignorant savages who bore them to be taught reading, writing and arithmetic was not done out of cruelty, it was done out of kindness, trying to position the children for success in the new society. Those who adapted, succeeded.
Naturally, the recipients hated it just as children everywhere hate sitting in class and people around the globe hate Americans coming to their countries to lecture them on enlightened democracies and LGBT rights. Uplift is indistinguishable from Arrogance until it’s complete, then it’s Obvious and Long Overdue.
There’s a reason Indian reservations are among the poorest, most backward, most desperate places on the planet. It’s because they clung to their culture and rejected ours. Which, come to think of it, explains Detroit and Baltimore and increasingly, parts of Minneapolis.
What if the problem isn’t that White killed too many Indians, but too few? What if the same problem applies to other cultures?
bigman
“What if the problem isn’t that Whites killed too many Indians, but too few? “
it isn’t a question of “too few” or “too many” but did they kill the wrong ones?
It was a Good Lie to serve the needs of certain factions in society.
Therefore, to the Globalizing Left, it was entirely acceptable.
M Thompson is correct.
By all accounts, the schools were brutal places where children were abused and many children died from disease.
But the narrative demands intentional genocide, not neglect. All white Canadians must be blamed, not just the people who were responsible for running the schools in a way that would inevitably result in physical abuse and neglect of the indian children.
MMP, you are applying modern standards to historical practices and finding them wanting. That’s a mistake.
A fair comparison would be to ask how did discipline at White Religious schools compare those the Chippewa established to civilize the Dakota? To those the Spanish established to civilize the Aztecs? To those the Romans established to civilize the . . . oh wait, they didn’t. Nobody ever did. The conquerers slaughtered the men, made the women sex slaves, did their best to exterminate the loser’s culture.
Were the perfect? NO. Were they better than the alternative?
The note about “started by a tribal member” struck me; if it indeed was orchestrated from within a tribe, than does that tribe become partially responsible for the Catholic and other churches burned in “retaliation” for the non-existent atrocities?
I would also be interested in learning which anomalies they were talking about. The things that come to mind for me are (a) mixes of soil in such a way that you don’t see elsewhere (e.g. clay on top instead of topsoil) or (b) subsidence. It strikes me that either could result from the yard being one where the outhouse was moved around. You dig the hole, let it fill halfway, refill it, move the outhouse, rince and repeat. Because waste rots, you get subsidence where the outhouse was, and the refill will cover it with the clay or sand that is the last thing to be removed.
Another possibility is that the field was one where kitchen scraps were buried to keep them from wolves and the like–and that would also generate the same basic signatures.
Shivanthi and Canadian Indians. More (alleged) leftist hoaxes. Let me show you my shocked face: 😯
Big, no good deed goes unpunished.
Bigman, I am able to look at historical events and determine whether they were right or wrong by referencing the eternal truth of God. I am not applying modern ethics to the behavior of the people who ran the indian schools in Canada.
American Indians are exacting their revenge by voting for degenerate leftists en mass.
They’re enjoying the destruction and debauchery, while fleecing old, White boomers at the slot machines. They’re doing pretty well for themselves.
So if a German were to howl about the graves of their (Celtic) ancestors, in many cases it would be right to scoff.
Just as a side note: my wife and I traveled to the small village in Germany where her grandfather was a boy before his family emigrated. A distant cousin took us to the street where they lived. We visited the church cemetery, looking for familiar names. Turns out that in Germany – a populous country with a finite amount of land – a family only leases a grave plot. Nowadays people are buried in biodegradable caskets and the lease is good for 30 years. After that, if the family doesn’t renew the lease, someone else is buried in the same spot and a new headstone erected.
The ancestors who gave me my last name emigrated to PA in the 1750s from a village called Egenhausen in the region called Schwabia in what is now part of SW Germany. I think back then it was a Palatinate of some Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. This was just before the revolutionary war. They were originally in Pennsylvania and some of the the clan moved West. They were Mennonites, I think, or maybe Quakers. They were religious refugees in any case, arrived in Philadelphia and married an Irish family, last name Boyd, who were banished from Ireland for the crime of getting married outside of Church of Ireland (aka Church of England).
Pretty much a whole pack of Quakers, probably. Typical American background, I have a German sounding last name but my family is Pennsylvania Dutch, not Midwest German, so there are some interesting cultural differences between my neighbors in Wisconsin and myself.
When i say that there are interesting differences between my PA Dutch background and Midwesterners of German ancestry whose ancestors emigrated to here between 1850 and 1900, I mean that they are knuckle-dragging savages. I call them “Schultzes.” 🙂
Isn’t one of the big differences between Pennsylvania Dutch and Midwest German when and why they emigrated? I seem to remember the midwestern Germans significantly emigrated in the wake of the failed 1848 socialist revolution, when the Kaiser “cordially invited” them to leave. That about right?
Pennsylvania Dutch date back to the 1600s and early 1700s.
Lots of Midwestern Germans came after 1848.
The Germans in southern ND and central IA, the Volgadeutsch, had been lured to Ukraine in the early 1800s to avoid the draft, and because the Czar wanted them to show the local peasants how to farm more effectively. They came to the US when a later Czar in the 1890s withdrew the exemption from the draft. Well, the lucky ones, anyway – Stalin killed or exiled the remainder during the war.