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Jim McMurtry's avatar

“Forced to attend” is indeed a myth, and no one makes the point as lucidly and thoroughly as Nina Green. Yet the challenge of doing a “reset” on any residential school myth is great. The perpetrators of historical lies tend to double down rather than change their views when confronted with facts.

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Max Williams's avatar

The IRS lie- that thousands of kids died under nefarious circumstances at the schools and were secretly buried- is just too big to admit for the Indigenous Grievence Industry. It is the foundantion of all the "decolonization" and "indigenization" measures by which Industry leaders amass money and power. Acknowledging that it is all a big lie can only happen when the grifters have found a new angle by which to extort the Canadian public. You can be sure they are working hard on this knowing the house of cards is about to tumble.

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Grace Joubarne's avatar

Most recently, they have started to attack the North West Mounted Police and RCMP, who did a great deal to save their sorry asses from one another's murderous rampages.

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KEMOSABE's avatar

Our Rose was the opposite of shy

With a twist of the tongue she would lie

If gain was her game

She would show no shame

It's the fault of the gov't, she would decry.

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Joan's avatar

And then she cried for the cameras, showing either that she's a terrific actress, or that the Kamloops band had succeeded in traumatizing her with their nightmarish narrative, to the point that she forgot she'd gone on to become a practical nurse, have six kids, oodles of grandkids and a career in construction. Did you watch that ridiculously maudlin Tik Tok video that Nina embedded? https://www.facebook.com/2sweetmiller/videos/618044979230217?idorvanity=205747780181465

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G M's avatar

Thank you for the information.

Very few people know the facts about these schools, only knowing what the mainsream media tells them.

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Charkate's avatar

Some funding to schools and settlement organizations in Canada from the feds is grounded in TRC propaganda. This has to stop.

Divides in families, as with the BIG C, is because of that propaganda. One example: a dear friend who died recently was not spoken to by his indigenous adult kids because he did not accept that propaganda.

Thanks for the tremendous article.

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Grace Joubarne's avatar

These people seem to have absolutely no shame.

It would be nice to have a breakdown of who got money for their stories...I think that would help people connect all the dots, because most people would not suspect that others would spew such dreadful and false stories for money.

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Glen's avatar

Most of what Aboriginals tell about "forcing" and "schools" and "abuse" is BS!! It is just a money maker for them and the government (taxpayers) have to stop it!! Enough!!

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

I suspect the recent torching of a Catholic school playground in Edmonton was motivated by belief in the “murdered children” legend that has been promulgated by politicians and academics and the media.

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Joan's avatar

Could be, but looking at the pics, it seems to me it was more likely sparked by kids hanging out and smoking around the play structures Friday evening – a dropped butt or match smoldering in the dry grass or the rubber matting and eventually flaring. A motivated arsonist would have attacked the school itself, I think.

https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/07/12/edmonton-police-looking-into-suspicious-playground-fire/

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Jack's avatar

This is a very well researched article. When the news came out about murdered kids buried in the orchard at Kamloops I was shocked and appalled. I knew people who attended the school, none of them had mentioned these alleged murders when I knew them in the seventies and eighties. Now, four years and twelve million dollars later, with no forensic investigations and no names of any possible victims, perpetrators, dates or other details of anyone actually buried in the orchard, I'm really skeptical and also angry that this now unsubstantiated claim was used for political reasons (passing UNDRIP, parliamentary declarations of Canadian genocide, funding, etc.) When I learned there was actually a Kamloops residential school reunion in 1977 with hundreds attending, including Len Marchand and Nathan Matthew, the Indigenous administrator of the school at the time, the ground penetrating radar announcements seemed even more absurd. Marchand himself was a prominent activist for Indigenous voting rights on reserves, also an MP and a Canadian senator. During his tenure, he never mentioned there were any parent or family complaints or investigations regarding missing children, neither did the Indigenous administrator Nathan Matthew. In fact, as mentioned, Marchand gave positive reviews of the school in his book "Breaking Trail."

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KEMOSABE's avatar

What came to mind after reading that heart breaking, tear inducing clip was the iconic line from the Wizard of Oz's Tin Man when he said, "now I know I have a heart cause it's breaking". Rose, given her theatrical talents, might very well have had an additional career on the silver screen.

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