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Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's horrifying that my country is full of so many of these bigots who firmly deny the truth that Canada genocided the indigenous populations. And RECENTLY.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think enough people realize just how recent this happened. The last residential school closed down in 1997.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_residential_schools_in_Canada

Nor do I think they understand how long it went on for, and how many generations were subjected to these schools. According to the Wiki, the first opened in 1828, with a boom of new schools opening from the 1860's onward.

From the the time the first school opened to the time the last closed: 169 years.

I'm horrified.