How UNDRIP Jumped the Shark on the Graves of Innocents
From Michelle Stirling
“…Our children and grandchildren will be taught the magic art of writing. Just think for a moment what that means. Without the aid of a spoken word our children will transmit their thoughts on a piece of paper, and that talking paper may be carried to distant parts of the country and convey your thoughts to your friends. Why even the medicine men of our tribe cannot perform such miracles.” - An Assiniboine Chief, Shingwauk’s Vision
On Friday July 5th, independent researcher and journalist Michelle Stirling gave a presentation called Residential School Mass Non-Graves at a Freedom Talk conference in Red Dear, Alberta. The name of the conference was The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization: Our Choice?. Below is a video of Michelle’s presentation; and here is a pdf of her slides:
There are many important pieces of historical information included in Michelle’s presentation. In many cases, she provides the receipts (see the PDF above). Among some of the lesser known facts about Indian Residential Schools are that the Chiefs both requested residential schools from the Government, and set aside reserve land for the building of them. Once built, parents enrolled their children in the schools based on family religious affiliation. The majority of indigenous children had already converted to Christianity. They were assigned to either a Catholic or a Protestant run residential school, depending on what parents filled out under “religion” on the residential school enrollment application.
Attendance at Indian Residential Schools was not made mandatory until 1920 - which is consistent with national truancy laws. Tuberculosis was a major killer in the early years of the residential school period (for the entire nation). An unfortunate consequence of the disease is that hemorrhaging often resulted in a lot of blood being coughed up by a person suffering from an acute case - Michelle posits that scene’s involving tuberculosis hemorrhaging may be the source of some the stories told by former students, who as children, remember seeing a lot of blood. As adults, some of these memories morphed into murder by nuns and priests, but as children, it is unlikely that younger students understood what was happening.
Michelle discusses what she calls “ambiguous losses.” This type of loss comes about through the incomplete picture of memory. Especially childhood memories when attempting to piece them together in adulthood. Many indigenous children would have experienced much coming and going of other children, both on reserves and at the residential schools. Many parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sibling’s and cousins were tragically taken by Tuberculosis. It is not unreasonable from the perspective of a child, that some would experience and remember a tragic loss of a family member or friend as a disappearance.
We have all heard stories of indigenous children who were taken to a residential school but never returned. This is highly unlikely as there is no evidence for disappeared or murdered former IRS students. While it may be true that in some cases, records related to IRS students may have yet to be identified, it is not plausible that any students simply disappeared, never to be seen again. Michelle explains that meticulous enrollment records were kept becuase the cash-strapped schools were compensated on a per student basis. Every student (that wasn’t an orphan or abused child) was enrolled by their parents (their parents signed an enrollment form), and every student was assigned a student number. They’re entire time at the IRS was tracked by administration.
Michelle speaks about the ramifications of the 2021 Kamloops unmarked graves story. Specifically, how six provinces had previously objected to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), and how the false claims in Kamloops put a fast end to those objections.
Watch the video below of Michelle’s presentation below (starts at 24:28):
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James Pew contributed a chapter to the best-selling book Grave Error: How The Media Misled us (And the Truth about Residential Schools). You can read about it here - The Rise of Independent Canadian Researchers
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Thank you Michelle for a very informative presentation. I wasn't aware of the 2023 moment of silence, which, of course, adds more insult to the existing national injury trauma. That people are easily mislead is an important lesson of history that is readily forgotten. Equally true and applicable is the proverb that the fish rots from the head down, a metaphoric warning of the danger of poor leadership which both Canada and the US have been suffering from. The inexcusable ignorance of our Parliamentarians and vainglorious PM, to unceremoniously indite and convict our country of the heinous crime of genocide, without the slightest bit of investigation or evidence, is a blatant violation of the "Rule of Law", and a mockery of the most important founding principles of our country. In our condemnation of this collective ignorance, let us not forget that every person elected to Parliament must swear an oath of fealty to Canada, a pledge now more honored in the breach than in the practice.
"To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you." ~ John Henrik Clarke
A great complementary article by Peter Best on UNDRIP: https://fcpp.org/2024/07/09/undrips-false-promise-of-indigenous-nationhood-threatens-individual-indigenous-canadians/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0_JX-9Cfx0VxNTIQ_ZvHN3lKWifrdTw2evpm_0Cx5697nvazXs_qSSZZY_aem_SEzgviVGF7sTPfpFYulbSg&sfnsn=mo