“What we know is that 432 students out of 150,000 over the course of 113 years died at Indian Residential Schools…”
Canada’s Phantom Genocide by Michelle Stirling
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“These are the statistics from the Truth and Reconciliation report.”
“What we know is that 432 students out of 150,000 over the course of 113 years died at Indian Residential Schools, most of tuberculosis or influenza, both of which were rampant in all sectors of society at the time.”
“Some 400 children died in hospital, 43 in sanatorium, 300 at home and 75 non-school.”
“It should be noted that the broader non-school numbers included any child that died within a year of attending Indian Residential School, thus automatically ascribing their death to school attendance when that is not a reasonable attribution by any measure.”
“Unlike countries like Argentina, where the families stand with pictures of their disappeared loved ones and their names, no such thing exists in Canada.”
“The closest thing to this is the Memorial Banner and Memorial Register put together by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. The banner and register indeed have thousands of names, but many are names of children whose deaths had nothing to do with residential schools, like the young adult murder victim, Helen Betty Osborne. Nothing to do with residential schools.”
“We don’t see Indigenous family members standing with photos and names because there is no list of ‘missing persons’ or ‘disappeared’ from Indian bands where the missing person from the Indian Residential School has not been found or the case resolved (i.e., in the cases of runaways who died in the woods or by drowning).”
“In Canada, such a thing cannot even be replicated because the death certificates are all filed with the provinces with rare exception. It is known what people died of, where, and where they were buried.”
“That a wooden cross or headboard has disintegrated over time does not indicate any nefarious deed.”
“Some Indigenous people have claimed that in each family 4 or 5 family members went missing at Indian Residential Schools. This is not possible based on simple math.”
“Of the 150,000 Indian Residential School students (as estimated by the government), 103,203 of them were still alive in 2007.”
“This means 69% of the students who attended an IRS institution over a period 113 years, were still alive 124 years after the first government-funded schools were established.”
“The claim of ‘genocide’ is false.”
“Michelle Stirling is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists. She researched, wrote, and co-produced historical shows about Southern Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Hugh Dempsey, then curator of the Glenbow Museum.”