Regardless of numbers, Indigenous residential schools were a decades-long tragedy – The Spec
Aug. 26, 2024
Reconciliation, the quest to repair the relationship with Indigenous peoples, isn’t a “woke” fantasy.
Recent articles in some corners of the Canadian media landscape have made much of the fact that the number of suspected graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School has been revised downward.
Indeed, some columnists have gone so far as to suggest this proves the Indigenous residential school system was not genocidal and that the national outpouring of grief for its victims has been overblown.
Much of the debate has centred on the pitfalls of ground penetrating radar (GPR).
