“Truth: Mass Grave Hoax. Reconciliation: Redeem Sir John A’s Integrity"

When reconciliation means lying about mass graves of indigenous children

Image from the CBC

By

Michelle Stirling

What if you knew that the reputation of a great historical figure had been smeared and the facts of history distorted beyond belief and you felt you should say something, some how. So, on your own property, you posted a sign expressing your view that the claim of mass graves of Indian Residential School children was a hoax, and that for there to be reconciliation, Canadians should restore Sir John A. Macdonald to his rightful historical place, as the visionary founder of modern Canada. Restore him and redeem him rather than toppling his statues and making false claims about his relationship with Indigenous people.

What if, having done so, your community went after you for expressing your views, launched an RCMP investigation against you and tried to get you kicked off your town council?

Who would you turn to?

This is the situation of John Robertson, a volunteer councillor in the village of Murray Harbour, P.E.I., which has a population of 282.

It is ironic that the RCMP were called to investigate Robertson. After all, it was Sir John A. Macdonald who established the RCMP in 1873 (then named the North West Mounted Police). Their mission was to go West and track down the Benton Gang of the US, who had crossed the border into Canada and viciously slaughtered the peaceful Assiniboine tribe who were camping in the Cypress Hills. Their mission was also to kick out the American whiskey traders who had set up shop in Southern Alberta and who were wantonly destroying the lives of the Blackfoot nation, feeding them a deadly mix of whiskey and strychnine when they came to trade furs.

North West Mounted Police — aka “Mounties”

It was Sir John A. Macdonald’s “Mounties” who saved the Blackfoot people from genocide at the hands of those American whiskey traders, and whose presence saved the Plains People from the encroachment of the US Cavalry, which had been conducting Indian Wars in the US from 1644 and which continued to do so until 1924.

It was Sir John A. Macdonald who listened to the advice of Thomas Green, a Mohawk surveyor, graduate of the McGill University, who urged Macdonald to bring the Western Treaty Chiefs east, to see how the world was changing, and to understand what skills their children would need for the future.

From Regina in March 1886 Green wrote: “Show them, or at least, allow them to be shown the principal sights & cities of Ontario & Quebec, and above all, have them visit the most prosperous Indian reserves of these provinces…. Let them see how their Indian brethren are prospering in those provinces; let them understand that the Indian can subsist like the white man where there is no game; and let them understand that the government do not wish to exterminate them.”2

Macdonald took his advice; the Chiefs came east on the loyalty tour. They saw the Mohawk Institute and received presentations from students as well as gifts of knitted red mittens made by the female students.

They agreed that these kinds of schools were the way to provide education and skills for their young people. The Chiefs knew the regional missionaries very well. The missions were strategically situated in places where such schools could be built and where groups like the Grey Nuns could be invited to work with the female students.

And thus, was born the Indian Residential School system. With the agreement of Treaty Chiefs, with the intention to provide the skills for the ‘just transition’ from a world of hunter-gatherers to a world of agriculture, industry and technology.

It is clear that the claim of ‘mass graves’ of children allegedly found by Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is false. The main reason is that there is no list of names of missing persons — over the course of 113 years of Indian Residential Schools, which saw 150,000 students go through the system, some staying for a year, most for an average of 4.5 years, some staying for a decade or more and graduating, and some orphans being taken in to the school as children, then remaining to work as Indigenous staff — these many thousands of children passed through Indian Residential Schools, their parents enrolling and re-enrolling them year after year.

And there is no list of names of missing persons.

There are many claims of missing persons.

Some of these claims are quite fatuous — with one person claiming that in their Band, every family had four or five children who went missing at that school. Another person claimed that their grandfather had ten siblings disappear in that school.

If that were true, the Band would have ceased to exist.

Despite these claims, there are no missing persons records.

And every student who went to that school is documented on the Band’s Treaty rolls, in documents of the Indian Agent, in the enrollment forms at the Department of Indian Affairs, along with the student’s medical certificate for entry, and in the quarterly reports of the department.

In fact, the Indigenous population of Canada grew from about 102,358 in 1871 to now 1.8 million.

It seems that the claim of a ‘mass grave’ on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site was timed to ‘nudge’ the approval of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People through parliament — which it did! The bill had been ‘stuck’ as six provinces had requested delay and clarity on key issues. Once the claim of ‘mass graves’ surfaced — boom!

Less than a month after the ‘mass graves’ news shot round the world, shocking the global community that Canadians — once known as international peacemakers, were actually hideous murderers of Indigenous children — UNDRIP swept through the Canadian Parliament with no objection.

A day later, China accused Canada of genocide, citing the Kamloops ‘mass graves’ find as proof. For those of you following the concerns about China’s alleged interference in elections in Canada, this rather convenient timing might set off some alarm bells.

If anything, the RCMP should be investigating this matter on grounds of false pretences or fraud. But the RCMP appear to have transferred the investigation of the Kamloops ‘mass grave’ to the people who claimed to have found them! Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can only identify ‘disturbances’ under ground, not bodies or coffins. In fact, based on previous land use records, most likely the GPR found 215 clay tiles of an old septic trench.

Rather than investigating Mr. Robertson for “unethical behaviour,” or for having breached community council ethical codes related to “inspiring public trust and confidence,” or that Mr. Robertson may be guilty of “discrimination, intimidation, and harassment,” perhaps the RCMP should be looking into how this false claim of a ‘mass grave’ manipulated parliament and the Canadian public into an ‘agreement’ that is fundamentally changing Canada’s confederation in ways that no Canadian voted for.

This false claim that has created a 260% rise in hate crimes against Catholics and which has resulted in the arson or vandalism of some 100 Catholic and other Christian churches since the ‘mass graves’ and ‘genocide’ claims hit the media.

Maybe the RCMP should investigate the government funded Canadian media for having shouted ‘fire’ in this crowded theatre we call Canada.

Maybe people should throw their support behind Mr. Robertson for having the courage to challenge a mass psychosis narrative with a handful of simple words.

If you’d like to do that, the Canadian Constitution Foundation has a petition theccf.ca/drop-the-sanctions/ and would probably welcome your donations as well. theCCF.ca/donate

BTW, here’s what Chief Crowfoot had to say about Sir John A. Macdonald’s Mounties.

“While I speak, be kind and patient. I have to speak for my people, who are numerous, and who rely upon me to follow that course which in the future will tend to their good. The plains are large and wide. We are the children of the plains, it is our home, and the buffalo has been our food always. I hope you look upon the Blackfeet, Bloods and Sarcees as your children now, and that you will be indulgent and charitable to them. They all expect me to speak now for them, and I trust the Great Spirit will put into their breasts to be a good people — into the minds of the men, women and children, and their future generations.

“The advice given me and my people has proved to be very good. If the Police had not come to the country, where would we all be now? Bad men and whiskey were killing us so fast that very few, indeed, of us would have been left today. The Police have protected us as the feathers of the bird protect it from the frosts of winter. I wish them all good, and trust that all our hearts will increase in goodness from this time forward. I am satisfied. I will sign the treaty.”[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowfoot

Here’s the CCF’s press release.

https://theccf.ca/councillor-facing-removal-for-exercising-his-free-speech/

Full disclosure — I have no association with any party in this article.

Michelle Stirling is a former 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.

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Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read Denounce Church Burnings and Stop the On-going Desecration of Graves in Historic Catholic Community Graveyard at Blue Quills First Nation

BREAKING NEWS: James Pew has contributed a chapter to the new 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

Also, for more evidence of the ideological indoctrination in Canadian education, read Yes, schools are indoctrinating kids! And also, Yes, The University is an Indoctrination Camp!

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