Posted on 08/22/2023 12:33:47 PM PDT by Red Badger
What was hyped as an "unmarked indigenous mass grave" detected using ground-penetrating radar under an "abusive" Catholic residential school in Manitoba turned out to be nothing but rocks after an extensive four-week excavation.
Indigenous groups in Canada used tales of "mass graves" and Catholic "abuse" of indigenous youths at residential schools to collect billions in reparations from Canadian taxpayers and have been reluctant to dig up any of the suspected "mass grave" sites detected with radar -- lest researchers' belief that the "graves" are actually just rocks and tree roots be confirmed.
They claimed digging up the suspected "mass grave" sites would trigger "intergenerational trauma" and disturb the dead.
Nonetheless, indigenous groups last month agreed to allow the excavation of a suspected mass grave site under the former Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba.
"Spiritual advisers led a pipe ceremony when the search began and a sacred fire was lit nearby to ensure elders, survivors and intergenerational survivors felt supported," Canadian state broadcaster CBC reported.
"The First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg, hired an archeological team from the University of Brandon to do the excavation earlier this summer," CBC continued. "It is the same team that assists police on archeological digs and excavations in the province."
"No evidence of human remains" was found during the investigation, CBC reported.
"Fourteen anomalies were detected using ground-penetrating radar in the basement of the church on the site of the former Pine Creek Residential School last year," CBC said. "Survivors had spoken about 'horror stories' in the basement."
Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe said the revelation should take "nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek."
From CBC:
"As a community we were preparing for more than one possible outcome, which meant we would prepare for the worst but hope for the best," Nepinak said.
[...] Nepinak said he is aware the results will feed into a denialist narrative of what happened at residential schools and urged people to continue supporting the search for truth.
"The results of our excavation under the church should not be deemed as conclusive of other ongoing searches and efforts to identify reflections from other community processes including other (ground-penetrating radar) initiatives," Nepinak said. "The 200 'unmarked graves' in Kamloops, [British Columbia] were identified by the same technology that identified the 14 in Manitoba, which we now know turned out to be nothing more than a pile of rocks underground," The Counter Signal reports:
Even to this day, the CBC has been hellbent on perpetuating a 'mass graves' interpretation of said anomalies that have been detected at various former residential school sites.
The media's absolute worst interpretation of the anomalies inspired protests and terrorist arson across the country.
Since the mass graves announcement, at least 83 churches have been burned to the ground or vandalized.
"[T]o this day, no human remains have been found at any former residential school in Canada," The Counter Signal reports.
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau more than once made a point to bring attention to the [indigenous mass graves] hoax, and was infamously seen kneeling beside the so-called graves with a teddy bear in his hand," The Post Millennial reports.
"Prior to the excavation, Nepinak suggested dark intentions of the supposed culprits of the now debunked grave site at the church," TPM noted. "We understand that over time burial sites may be lost to the natural elements," [Nepinak] explained in an earlier press release. "But to bury remains under a building suggests a dark and sinister intent that cannot be unaddressed as we expose the truth of what happened in our homeland."
When are Canadian Catholics going to get reparations for all the churches left-wing/indigenous rights extremists burned down based on nonsense?
Welp. That screws up their narrative.
They’re lying.
For which they got billions of dollars from the Canadian taxpayers.
Sounds like fraud, to me ...
They knew there was no there there. That's why they let the narrative be forgotten before this came out.
It pretty much IS afraid. Leftists are such con artists.
Refund?
BUT they are SACRED indigenous rocks and just as full of life force as children.
When pigs fly?
Looking for that Ghetto lottery payout! That great Injun casino roulette wheel in the sky.
Who was the real Hiraldo of this shirade...
I note the paper wasn't too quick to name someone who
drove this.
"We've been here sadly anticipating what is about to be
revealed... Any minute now... Just a little longer..."
We did some GPR in a local cemetery. There was one spot that I questioned because it was on the tree line...The GPR guy said no...definitely a body...I’m pretty sure I would be the winner in a dig off.
“That screws up their narrative.”
But does it? The lie is blared and believed by the lemmings. The retraction/correction is whispered if it’s even covered at all.
Sadly for them, Not the Bee.
whispered if it’s even covered at all
“No, not there! Over there more, no, keep going, farther….”
They killed all those rocks!
Madmen! Fiends!
I caught a portion of Matt Walsh’s radio show last night about this general topic. I will paraphrase my admittedly partial understanding of this. I’m only a mild Matt Walsh fan.
Apparently, Canada had numerous primarily Catholic schools for wayward native children dating back to the mid to late 1800’s. Keep in mind that significant parts of Canada, back then, were quite remote and fairly primitive. (some would say that today, LOL)
One day, somebody began to enquire as to what happened to /with some of all of these graves, whose kids were in them, etc; etc; They noticed that many of these schools had cemeteries on their grounds. Some were large. So whomever was investigating this ultimately got ground penetrating radar gear and began probing the ground where these cemeteries were and nearby. Now nobody should doubt that some kids died in these schools and given the state of medical care at the time and the virulence of various diseases....
So this ground penetrating radar is capable of finding “anomalies”. It doesn’t reveal obvious “graves”. Some of these anomalies were found to resemble somebody’s idea of what a mass grave would look like. And of course, all manner of experts weighed in. As it turned out, upon extensive excavation turning up no signs of bodies, instead indicating that these anomalies were for the most part drainage ditches.
In the meantime, an enormous nationwide movement sprang up demanding reparations or compensation for the families of these kids, going well beyond mere negligence; implying that the Cana government had engaged in a widespread program of extermination, of mass murder. And especially since many of these kids were natives, Eskimos, Indians, etc, the wrongdoing was especially heinous and the righteousness of making reparations was beyond called for, it was a metaphyscially-demanded commandment of a decent society. This is way beyond scattered miscreant protest; it is at this point deeply embedded into the government in Canada.
And from what I heard, if you think the reparations movement in the US is widespread, this grew and has grown far, far beyond what we’re seeing in the US. Hundreds of millions were spent excavating these sites. And people who questioned the validity of the scientific and archaeological results were roundly and universally denounced as “deniers”. Sound familiar?
And I’ll fully admit to not knowing much about the current status of this, but my suspicion is that once a segment of the population becomes convinced that government or societal action is the immutable path to absolution, there’s no way it can be shut off.
The myth is so often a better story than reality.
How did Geraldo let this slip by him? Sounds like another Capone hideaway scam.
Almost 100 churches and the entire town of Lytton destroyed by arson.
Trudeau's response to the arsons was "It's understandable".
All fake. All based on lies, like everything this guy does.
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