Searching for the Lost Graves of Indigenous Children in Canada | NYT News

For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend residential schools, where many endured abuse. Thousands were never seen again and survivors were long ignored. We followed a team of archaeologists who came to the Muskowekwan First Nation to search for the graves of these lost children.
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[@prochey69]

We knew that there would be graves there. The Canadian government and the Catholic Church have been ignoring this for decades, gaslighting indigenous families about their missing children. Days of remembrance and all of the pandering in the world doesn't make up for the unwillingness to investigate these prisons.

[@АлександрКарамазов-в8с]

What do you expect from a religion that hosts pedophiles?

[@tyson302]

The canadian gov hasn't they've been teaching about this for decades

[@MyName_Jeff]

Of course we knew there would be graves there, it's literally taught in schools across Canada.

[@kappanilo]

Thanks for your comment, Mandy. You bring up a great point. Indeed these experiences and knowledge of unmarked graves are common among Indigenous communities. Even in 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission put out a report regarding residential schools. There was an entire chapter on missing children... but nothing changed on a great national scale in terms of awareness outside of Indigenous communities until the discovery of the 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

[@silverhost9782]

Gaslight, gatekeep, girl boss. Natives btfo

[@JLZerilli]

Wow, hard to believe the whole thing turned out to be a hoax!

[@juanroberts5974]

And Trudeau’s picture of him kneeling with flowers by a flag in the ground marking an “anomaly “ picked up by ground penetrating radar.

[@djmarz9932]

Kids died , maybe not in the thousands but in the hundreds , the great coverup continues

[@Orchid-d27a]

In this comments section are disgraceful and disturbing. Children are dead. @JLZerilli. You are disgusting to think this a a hoax. Have some Shame.

[@cm-bp4ow]

@@Orchid-d27a “children are dead” 3 years later, numerous sites dug up, millions of government money used no still evidence of any dead children. So no, children are not dead.

[@cm-bp4ow]

@@Orchid-d27a “children are dead” 3 years later, numerous sites dug up, millions of government money used no still evidence of any dead children. So no, children are not dead.

[@Paul-mc9ce]

Another dig has just finished, third one I think and no graves or human remains have been found. Guess you are not interested in reporting that.

[@marcapaulajos]

Excavations have been done in Pine Creek, MB, Shubenacadie, NS and Edmonton, AB at suspected sites of mass graves and no human remains were found. As a matter of fact, zero human remains have been found since this story broke out 2 years ago.

[@kltil5082]

Wow I found one person who knows the truth.

[@nealkinevil]

That was why Trudeau went surfing instead of the kamloops nation the first years truth and reconciliation day. He knew it was a hoax the entire time.

[@marine9583]

@kltil5082 Yes, and it's too bad that the media ran with it, and most people formed an opinion on it. The real info is out there. People just have to look for it.

[@user-cc5od3zk4p]

What is a shame is a shame is that the media didn’t research properly. No mass graves. These are cemeteries. Big difference. Where’s the genocide? Stop blaming and move on.

[@ghaah]

haha it would have removed by the church themselves. money can buy anything.

[@valeriea1311]

The fact that this scholl was shut down 1997 is just very scary.

[@azlan758]

Most shut down in the early 1940's. this was kind of a lone school

[@bigglesmcgillicuddy3388]

The residential school was run by the church from 1895 to 1969. During the 20s several reports of poor conditions at the school were published by gov't inspectors and health care providers, and largely ignored. From 1969 the church was finally expelled and it was managed directly by the gov't, and from 1981 to 1997 it was managed by the Muscowequan themselves.

[@Mikeb-NH]

I wasn't surprised to learn places like this existed but I was surprised to learn I was a Freshman in high school when this place finally shut down. I was initially expecting it to be the 70's at the latest.

[@iciajay6891]

There is still forced sterilization of Indigenous woman going on in Canada. And it is not illegal. Which is beyond disgusting. I am white, but grew up on a first nations reserve in Ontario.

[@RJL612]

What's scary is there hasn't been one body unearthed.

[@marine9583]

Of 215 supposed graves in Kamloops British columbia, not one body has been dug up. I'm not saying all of this is a lie, but a lot of these are lies.

[@00MSG]

And they haven't found a single grave. What a disgrace, shame on you NYT

[@perryroberts4353]

You should take time and learn the basic facts of this story. The investigation has all been stopped by the RCMP by orders from Ottawa. Because reserves and the land that these schools are on federal land, no excavation is allowed without consent from the Canadian government. There have been hundreds of graves identified by GPR in the limited time that investigators were allowed to use it but there has yet to be permission to disturb the ground on any site. So your ignorant comment proves that people are uneducated and don't know anything about Native history or Native life today.

[@perryroberts4353]

@@rangers94ism So you're implying that there are no graves to be found? So tell me what happened to all the children who never returned home because they died of "natural causes". I'd think there would be at least one body.

[@perryroberts4353]

@@rangers94ism Again, they haven't been allowed to dig because it's federal land. I'm wondering if your denial covers all the atrocities that happened to white children while in residential schools or whether it's just your racism.

[@kltil5082]

@@perryroberts4353 You're the one claiming they exist in the first place. So where is your evidence? Who did you hear that from? What school did they claim their kid went to? Let's get to the bottom of this. It's hardly crazy to imagine someone dying of natural causes when TB alone was killing 1 in 7 people in the nation, let alone everything else. So where is your evidence of these murdered children? You're the one accusing people of murder and you want us to provide you with evidence? That's not how it works.

[@gwarchive]

Why are you blaming NYT for documenting? Not every story has a happy ending, sorry that people are showcasing that truth which they did not incite.

[@leonlopez5704]

I have a hunch that there are similar graves in the USA and Australia

[@tbz1551]

Anywhere there was British colonization and Catholicism you will have this repeated. It’s a global atrocity.

[@bradley8575]

There was the south Dakota wonded knee massacre and Australian expansion to the west and white Australia policy.

[@leonlopez5704]

@@bradley8575 yeah, those are the ones we know. There are definitely ones we haven't seen before.

[@dickiewongtk]

@@tbz1551 British colonization is the best thing ever happened in my life. Everything went downhill after the Chinese take over.

[@whathell6t]

@@dickiewongtk Are you being serious or joking?

[@001sander2]

12yrs old commiting suicide, Canada is responsible for so much horror

[@The123dannyd]

It’s more the Catholic Church.

[@The123dannyd]

@BrightForest it happens systemically in the Catholic Church open your eyes. It’s widely known and covered up. Watch spotlight. Look up why pope benedict resigned. Don’t be so naive

[@lgziabeher]

@BrightForest You say there is no pattern but this has happened everywhere European missionaries have been sent to.

[@The123dannyd]

@BrightForest catholic priests raping children especially boys isn’t a problem across the world? They occur to frequently to be sole incidents and are covered up by the church. A study taken Between 2001-2010 found 3,000 priests were said to be involved in sexual abuse cases dating back to 1960. With the Vatican stating that “this phenomenon is reducing” and noting there are 400,000 priests as if that’s a good thing. 0.75% of all priest had been in involved in sexual abuse. That number should be 0%.

[@The123dannyd]

@BrightForest thank god there’s 3000 protected paedophiles. What is your opinion of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal and the cover ups?

[@romaynedaniels7736]

This is horrific savagery committed on innocent indigenous lives.

[@methsmokingneanderthaltrai5309]

Typical Whyte Behavior

[@hoyaa1534]

@@methsmokingneanderthaltrai5309 true

[@gypsyemperor7535]

Stone age 4 eva

[@themasstermwahahahah]

At least they didn't just completely massacre everyone like in the US, which I feel like doesnt get enough attention, when it is way worse in comparison. Obviously both are awful, but the US hits another order of magnitude.

[@BuffiestFluff]

@@themasstermwahahahah no we did that too, just under the name of a British colony not an independent country. Not proud of it but it's my countries past. The USA also ran residential schools, "fun" fact

[@CarlyGarzaArt]

This story needs to keep being reported on. Thank you for your work and documentation.

[@canadafirstdog9051]

youtube KEVIN ARNETT . if you want the story and info behind all of this .

[@mena376]

yes, thank you NYT

[@kappanilo]

Thank you for watching, Carly.

[@azlan758]

If you live in Canada(idk if you do) this is been reported for months. no offense to the times but they were kinda late

[@kappanilo]

@@azlan758 Great point Azlan. I'm Canadian along with two other colleagues on our team. Indeed the NYTimes and Canadian media have been covering residential schools for more than a decade. However, these archaeological approaches to search for the unmarked burials of children who were forced to attend these institutions are only just beginning. This is why we decided to go along now to capture the very start of this process, which will likely go on for years.

[@hopebarker2669]

The fact that there are people alive who experienced this means there are people alive who participated in it. We are the last generation to see this first hand

[@athenasuperheldin1017]

My mother was born under British colonial rule (and she is still alive) and it destroyed our family. Colonialism was not the long ago or "ancient" as some people like to paint it when they try to gaslight Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples in order to minimize the atrocities.

[@KoiYakultGreenTea]

There’s so many Holocaust survivors left and yet there’s ‘neo nazis’ even tho they still live. Such an insult

[@symphonyinkart]

@@athenasuperheldin1017 I’m so sorry 😢. I’m white australian, I hate my white skin and so many times randomly, I think about my ancestors… who were they, what were they involved it. I almost want to move from Australia, being white here. It feels wrong. I watch these stories as it feels the least I can do… to know and hear what some lives have through this colonisation and destruction.

[@davidcleland8457]

@@symphonyinkart hi, I'm Aboriginal Australian. Please don't leave our, yours and mine, country. Australia needs loving people like you here to make the future better for everyone ♥️💛🖤😊

[@Pridecrucified]

@@symphonyinkart Don’t feel bad about being who you are because you had no choice in that all we’re asking is that you be the change be the resolution use your white privilege for good

[@imranahmad7672]

these horrific things happened all over America's continent(north and south) as well as Australia, new zealand

[@01010010r]

Im disturbed this video says Canada in the title like its the only place it happened. Yuck.

[@juice8037]

What exactly happened in NZ and Australia?

[@eolay4411]

@@juice8037 Same thing unfortunately

[@jeffspicolli593]

Nonsense.

[@elbiyoo]

For decades we have been hearing stories of such atrocious abuse in Ireland, much of it also associated with the Catholic Church. Until now Canadians/Canadiens had a reputation for being civilized and polite and reasonable, but this Indigenous Residential Schools scandal adds weight to Machiavelli’s teaching that ‘human nature is always and everywhere the same.’

[@eajaros]

Only if they’re descendants of the Roman Catholic colonizers it seems.

[@elbiyoo]

To Eddie A.J.: The colonizers in Ireland are the Protestant English. The Germans who did what they did to the Jews were Protestants. The Hutu and Tutsi share the same religion. No, all human beings are capable the divine and the demonic. We need to grow our divine capability.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

@@elbiyoo "The Germans who did what they did to the Jews were Protestants." Not all of them. I have German ancestors who came to the US in the 19th century who were Roman Catholic. The people of Germany aren't religious now in the 21st century, but the southern states of Germany are historically Catholic.

[@heidiw3615]

May I ask what abuse in Ireland you’re referring to?

[@blueguitar411]

@@heidiw3615 search the Magdelene Laundries

[@maibritton2882]

I truly believe that Harvey walks the building everyday to honor and show respect to those who are in the ground but who's spirit's live forever. I work with children and when they ask why people and governments commit genocide against other's I tell them humans fear what they don't understand, humans fear what is not of their kind. Don't drop your books, you will loose your lessons.

[@Nay-wj6qh]

How do u feel now that the whole thing is false and You choose believe hoax story without evidence

[@VikingMale]

And still cant find mass graves

[@SamPashmi]

Who’s here after this got debunked?

[@nicolelovett8467]

My heart broke at The archaoelogist scientist crying.... so many children lost... thank you for carrying on, all.

[@kappanilo]

Thanks for watching, Nicole. Yes being present for the discovery was very emotional. We were all crying.

[@bearswithglasses]

@BrightForest Not their bodies, but their memories. Revival and communal acknowledgment of memories is crucially important. Important for the communities who need to heal, important for justice, important for being finally heard after living in an ocean of silence.

[@kae23232]

Mine too.

[@gizzyguzzi]

You've been played. This is a lie

[@ronniejames1110]

Do you publicly sob for all the 1.5 million Jewish children intentionally exterminated? Do you publically cry out " WHY?" For children who die everyday from disease around the world? Just like these children did..or are you just another hypocrite sheep?

[@adametherington7010]

Im a child of my mother who survived these schools strong woman my hero to raise 6 of us thanks for the upload

[@jonmararbiter0721]

If you lie you should apologize

[@BoneClawsMcGraw]

hahahaha this aged well

[@nitronical6762]

OMG 8:39 to 10 mins the soft spoken male sitting around with 4 women looking at a laptop that shows "something" and them being like "omg...its kids....we cant be more certain...this shows how much its importance for ppl like us to fight for justice". I cant😂. People are so lost. Their brains are liquid

[@XP-nt9iy]

As of September 2023, NO HUMAN REMAINS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FOUND. More than two years after the story came out and 68 churches were vandalized or even burned to the ground. THANKS A LOT.

[@kltil5082]

They don't care about that though.

[@helenedesforges3483]

They did found 215 buried children , they did a ceremony at the parliament , I live right beside the Canadian parliament all the names of those children’s are on a red flag . They even showed it on the news but Facebook don’t want Canadian news to posted so that’s why American don’t know what’s happening here in canada

[@paulmaxwell8851]

@@helenedesforges3483 I'm sorry, but your claim is patently untrue. There were decades and decades of terrible abuses at these schools, and I wish we could mete out severe punishment to the perpetrators, but of course they're all dead now. At any rate, NO bodies have been found. None. Zero. Are there bodies out there, waiting to be discovered? Yes, I believe so. Children did die from time to time. However, we have not found a single body to date (Sept. 9, 2024). I'm disappointed a major news outlet could be so gullible.

[@eddietat95]

The oldest political parties in Canada - the Liberal Party (est. 1867) and the Conservative Party (est. 1854/1942) fully established, funded, and promoted all of this. They remain the two strongest political parties today.

[@Jay-ii1vl]

Schools should teach more about these things, so heartbreaking and I never even knew!

[@kappanilo]

I so agree with you! I went to public school in Vancouver and we barely learned any of this. I visited my high school when I was home this past week and was encouraged by how more is being taught to students about this really grim history and its present consequences.

[@herykisnen3402]

@@kappanilo When I thought of what the children would have gone through I couldn't resist tears . I hope your work will evoke atleast this generation and resonate the future. ❤️

[@joanna0988]

My daughter is in grade 5 and she's learned about it every year plus Orange Shirt Day where they have a big assembly and speakers. It doesn't take away any of the pain but at least the younger generations will know the truth.

[@ReginaApple007]

Bc it's fake. It's just an old graveyard.

[@beachboys3326]

@@ReginaApple007 🤥 liar

[@lilrevo9651]

its been 9 months, have they found anything at all?

[@jeffspicolli593]

2024 three years later and nothing yet.

[@djmarz9932]

​@@jeffspicolli593Evidence conviently washes away over time

[@reinerwilhelms-tricarico344]

Now there is no other way: It must be verified by direct excavation of some of these suspected sites. Currently, beginning Sept 2023, the first excavations were just done, but no remains were found. They had expected to find at least 14 bodies (or perhaps even 60?) but didn't find a single one. I think the examinations shown here were not done with sufficient critical and unbiased research ethics. Even from this documentation I got the clear impression that the researchers didn't really want to know if there could be any alternative explanation, and they seemed tremendously prejudiced. They expected with some certainty to locate dead children's remains, and then the blobs on the screen became immediately dead children's remains. And that's how it was presented in the media, as if actual remains of 215 children had been found. One had to read the articles very carefully to find that this was only based on indirect sensing methods, not actual excavations. No material evidence was found, nor did anyone try to find it. I didn't know that, and I remember well how much I was shocked by these cruel news. But here the researcher go immediately like: Oh we can't disturb the dead, this is sacred ground. True, but if you want to know the truth you have to step beyond that barrier. If the indigenous tribes allow it, someone has to do the actual forensics. It's not right to make wild claims about genocide, which contributed to the burning of some 50 churches, and have no evidence other than a narrative. It's clear to me that a lot of evil things have been done by the Catholic church, but if we ever want a closure about this, the truth has to be revealed - by finding the material evidence. Otherwise, there will be way to much space for deniers, who keep calling this a hoax.

[@akshitamudgal9692]

I came to know about this for the first time when I saw the NETFLIX series ANNE with an E and my heart went out for those children and their families. I hope justice would be delivered even if it's late at least they deserve this much as humans.

[@ge2719]

will justice b served for all the churches burnt down because of this hoax. because lies were made about scans that never showed any bodies, creating real world hatred and anger that caused real world harm and violence. and yet the government is reinforcing these lies, and doing nothing to provide justice for those attacked base don these lies and this "mass grave" hoax. what would be the correct for of justice for those who lied about all this? who stole hundreds of millions of dollars based off of these lies?

[@thegreatergood8081]

Activists usually value narrative over truth. As such, those who pushed this hoax will never admit that they were wrong.

[@mathewjohnson3614]

Turns out they are a bunch of liars.

[@EvadoCouto]

This school closed within my lifetime and I’m not even 30. Unfathomable, and yet, this is what happened. Heart wrenching doesn’t begin to describe it.

[@kappanilo]

Yes! When we immigrated to Canada in the 90s, these schools were still operating.

[@EvadoCouto]

@@kappanilo it seems so surreal. My Indigenous ancestors are from South America, mostly in Brazil so my family has been impacted by the Catholic Church in similar ways. It all just seems way too recent. In Brazil chattel slavery wasn’t abolished until 1888, my great grandparents were born in the 1890s, my grandmother in 1923. When I was younger it just all seemed so much further in the past 💔 Thank you for this invaluable work. I really appreciate the great care that was taken in making this. I wept the whole way through 💝🦅

[@kayteegrace8283]

I’m 25, it closed the year after I was born.

[@pebblepod30]

Is it true that this story is a hoax? No bodies have been found, yet it the have reported it all as fact. We have to remember that many people don't care about truth-seeking, they only care what it means for their peer group status. I will believe it when i see evidence. There is so huge potential for ulterior motives, and it is the media's job to question, rather than be committed to a narrative.

[@pebblepod30]

Please note how often race hate crimes (at keast that support woke ideology & narratives) turn out to he hoaxes in the last 10 years.

[@PhantommiYT]

Commenting for the algorithm. Everyone should see this.

[@MsMak03]

THIS

[@pl9466]

You mean for all these years the families never asked where their graves were?????????????

[@kelvinthomas9753]

After a year not even a single grave found

[@cribbles3476]

Amazing job gaslighting a entire country into grieving.

[@sophiapde9369]

what do you mean?

[@IHS333]

and burning churches built by natives

[@markwilkie7633]

“I found him hanging…he wasn’t hanging he was laying there”. Hahahah talk about trying to make a narrative

[@ericmonnin3753]

Still no bodies, how about an update on the realities of these claims

[@lagerstatte1663]

As a middle class Canadian just seeing the dilapidated state of so many Native communities and the wounded eyes of so many Native elders just fills me either sorrow for what Europeans immigrants did to their people and society over centuries and fills me with disgust for my government, myself and my fellow Canadians for failing to invest in Native communities as even a small act of penance for the horrible crimes committed against the Native peoples even into the modern day.

[@seanwebb605]

Forget penance. The sins of the father don't carry onto the son. My family came to Canada for a better life. Our family history is that of poor and working class Scottish and low status English people. Canada offered us more opportunity than what was available for us in the United Kingdom at the time. I adopt all of Canadian history as my history. Including events good and bad that occurred before my family's arrival. But I won't do time for the past. I didn't perpetrate any of these acts. I didn't benefit from any of these acts. The world at that time looking at it now from a more passive and peaceful society appears truly horrific. And it was much more aggressive and violent. True of pretty much all tribes around the globe. There aren't any great nations or empires that didn't feature violence as a means to gain and keep lands. However, in the context of recent events the residential school system was pretty horrific. And many survivors are alive today. It's not ancient history. People living today who attended these schools tell us of the horrible conditions. They lost brothers, sisters and friends. People who otherwise would still be alive today. We should look at them as abused and killed Canadians. If they don't identify as Canadian and choose their tribal identities that is perfectly fine. But children in our broad society were treated poorly and died. We should be judged by how well we treat the most vulnerable members of our society. Even the most primitive societies are respected for their care and rituals for their dead. These children were discarded. That's terrible. You're quite right about the housing and living conditions of indigenous people in Canada today. We need to do better. We send money and support to Haiti and other nations to help. Which I have absolutely no objections to. But we ignore the suffering of our own people. Put the politics aside. People in Canada don't have adequate housing, drinking water, access to nutritious food and so much more. Generations lack hope. They lack the resources and conditions to improve their own lives. That doesn't match our Canadian ideals at all. Recognize their basic humanity and work with them to make things better. The current situation is intolerable.

[@breadispain454]

I dont care

[@eajaros]

Which is why I’m moving to Vancouver in early 2022 because at least your government IS sorry. My Catholic family supports trump and this country is disgusting in its treatment of humans.

[@poposterous236]

@@eajaros I appreciate the sentiment, but the government spent millions of dollars trying to cover this up. They ain't really sorry.

[@dsilverleaf4668]

Meh

[@eshowoman]

As a Caribbean American person who will never know where their enslaved ancestors are buried this search for Native American, Aboriginal and First Nations children breaks my heart. I wish the people looking for these babies find all of them so they can finally rest with their ancestors.

[@khazms]

For real, there are millions of graves of slaves.

[@pebblepod30]

I also don't know where my enslaved or abused ancestors are, nor do i care. I was not taught to identify with things i did not even experience. It is the same with the racism of white guilt: behaving or feeling guilty for something you didn't do, based on sharing same skin tone.

[@percymak72]

Amen

[@sunnydaze429]

@Zoot Rollo Nonsense Stop fibbing Pinocchio

[@beachboys3326]

​@@pebblepod30 You don't know where your meds are. Doofus.

[@leandragilmour2806]

Tobacco down prayers up, smoke rising. Hiy Hiy. I am the daughter, grand daughter and sister of RSS’s. My heart is heavy with this, always has been. I remember as a young teen how confused I was. I knew the traumas my family suffered but they still went to church, still had faith. I asked my mom why that was, why still hold onto that rosary. Her answer gutted me, but not as much as the shame I could feel coming from her when she answered without lifting her head or looking at me. “Because it was all we had left” I cried myself to sleep that night. Everything that was taken from our people, the most hurtful for me was the ability for our parents to show us love...we were raised with no emotions. It still hurts to this day. There will be a group of 3/4 girls around the ages of 13/14 buried together at Holy Angels RS in Northern AB. My mom was supposed to be with them one Friday night. They planned to sneak out to attend a barn dance. My mom was scared of the punishment if they were caught so she stayed behind. The girls never returned. When my asked the nuns for 3 days about them, she was told they drowned in a boating accident. My mom knew right away that wasn’t true because the dance wasn’t in the direction of the lake...it was in the opposite direction. No where near the lake. I wish my mom was here today to see that they are all finally going to come home. This is a beautiful film, please continue to share our stories, as painful as they are. I am the daughter of Mary Jane Powder, Gr Gr Gr granddaughter of Chief BlackPowder, Gr Gr niece of Chief BigBear, I am a proud Cree woman and I will be with you in spirit every time you walk these grounds. Hiy Hiy

[@kappanilo]

Thank you for sharing this Leandra

[@halroxdynasty8683]

This made me cry 😭 I'm so sorry and thank you for sharing

[@joshuadavid2534]

It’s not true.

[@Nay-wj6qh]

The ny times story is false, no mass graves have been found

[@rubemartur8239]

There are new developments regarding a 2021 story out of Canada. Reports then said there were mass graves of indigenous children found at residential schools in the North American country. Some of those schools were run by the Catholic Church. According to a new report, the recent excavation of 14 alleged burial sites unearthed no human remains.

[@farehashabnam3489]

What about the residential school founded by English colonial powers jn USA? Any documtary or research study about them??

[@abdulhabash7609]

Confirmed hoax

[@fernandofarias5950]

That must never happen again.

[@amefuraggamuffin]

It's still happening. Despite being 7% of children in Canada, 40% of children in the foster care system are indigenous. Abuse and suicide is high in foster care, some kids are taken away from their parents and put in foster care on the other side of the country. The government of Canada hasn't stopped stealing indigenous children

[@ImSafeonSite]

...and it won't... unless you're in Syria, Africa, Afghanistan..

[@R8V10]

The Uyghurs in China.

[@bearswithglasses]

@@amefuraggamuffin Still happening in the US too #MMIW

[@bikeshop2002]

@@amefuraggamuffin EXACTLY. CPS takes kids with zero evidence of abuse, neglect or drugs. They literally lie and commit perjury to do it. And they target Indigenous people, those with low income, and anyone who doesn't have the wealth and power to expose and fight them. That's how they make sure future generations don't get raised by anyone with values that threaten the current corrupt system. What they do to good families is evil. It's the worst thing you can do to a human being - steal and abuse their child. Children have a right to safety and to their families if those families have not been harming them. Ministries don't care. They just want to keep the numbers of kids in the system as high as possible. I'm not even Indigenous and I hate them with a passion. I was in the foster system and I know a kid is 10 times more likely to be abused in government "care" than at home. I know what they're doing. I hope someday people can come together and put a stop to it because it's an ongoing atrocity that NEEDS to be stopped. This system is literally feeding on childrens' suffering that it creates itself. It's horrible.

[@Cannabian]

One of the most confusing things to me is many of the families embraced residential schools and sent kids willingly, because the principle of it was providing much needed education and access to amenities... all that had to be done was to educate and treat them with dignity but instead they chose abuse, negelect in an attempt to break them. Completely unnecessary and mind boggling.

[@KoiYakultGreenTea]

Probably about power and domination against ‘paganism’ to a racially ‘inferior’ population. It’s easy to abuse their power if they’re only children

[@seekittycat]

The parents who didn't want to send their kids were forced to by the police, none of this was about teaching. It's about religion and the belief non white is less then human

[@Meteyard97]

not in this case lol@@MissCleo24

[@rangers94ism]

Relax. This is all just a lie

[@ge2719]

and my dad used to get smacked with sticks and canes in his school, that was in the uk, 50 years ago. it was unnecessary, but most of this bs being claimed in canada is lies, and theres been literally zero mass graves", its all been a lie from day one, based off of bs "scans" that never showed any bodies what so ever.

[@megan893]

Geez, those poor children. My heart really really hurts for them.

[@eajaros]

Probably shouldn’t invoke Jesus when it’s the Catholics doing this

[@megan893]

@@eajaros yup, you're totally right. I say that our of habit, not trying to in invoke anyone or anything

[@bikeshop2002]

@@eajaros don't they hate it when you take the 'lord's' name in vain? all the more reason to say it, Jesus Christ.

[@kappanilo]

Same here

[@kaleycooper9111]

May they Rest In Peace. What happened to them was horrifying and I can’t imagine what it was like. So many people lost to the cruelty of humans. So sad :(

[@Butterfliesandbees]

I wish I could watch this. I wish I wasn’t so triggered by all of this but I am. My parents survived residential school. Im in the first generation that didnt have to go, I’m 27. I currently live feet away from where a residential school used to be, it’s one of the schools my mom was forced to attend. I can’t even explain the pain or anger I feel.

[@everythingtutorialofhow2111]

OH so your mom and dad go or just mom or dad

[@Butterfliesandbees]

@@everythingtutorialofhow2111 my mom went to two different residential schools and my dad went to st. annes. And what do you mean “MYSELF” ?

[@everythingtutorialofhow2111]

@@Butterfliesandbees I mean I GONNA DELETE IT

[@everythingtutorialofhow2111]

@@Butterfliesandbees I go to St Anne also!!!

[@Butterfliesandbees]

@@everythingtutorialofhow2111 in fort Albany? That’s so crazy I wonder if you knew my dad or if you know any of my aunties.

[@EmmaAndEmmaAndEmma]

*** TW: s*icide *** I could’ve cried when the man mentioned the boy he’d found who hung himself, and then that he became suicidal at 12. I knew these children had suffered abuse and neglect and died from malnourishment and disease, but it never dawned on me that some sought suicide as the only way to escape. Children. What horrific places these must have been.

[@cuttingman007]

Not only in Canada, everywhere indigenous communities suffered alot due to foreign invasion. But this happened at in less than 100 years, by a particular religious groups towards children! No words to say!

[@eshowoman]

The same racist tactics were used in America and Australia.

[@cuttingman007]

@@eshowoman yep

[@AtulKumar-tt2pz]

Who were these people? Which country they came from?

[@cuttingman007]

@@AtulKumar-tt2pz you mean indigenous people?

[@prodipchakraborty8788]

@@AtulKumar-tt2pz There has been such horrific acts on the original people of every land on this globe. The tormentors and oppressors were the Europeans under the umbrella of the christian religious heads. They wanted to spread their faith. The same happened with the muslim leaders too. They wanted to spread their faith and for that they needed to eliminate the local indigenous culture and the local belief systems. In India, Africa, Australia too there were plenty of such crimes.

[@stanhicks7423]

it doesn't faze them at all to get caught lying they just switch to another sob story and expect a check

[@erinjoines7821]

They deserve to be known and honored

[@kappanilo]

Absolutely, Erin

[@wyattmaxog]

0 bodies found

[@ge2719]

yeah, those children who literally didnt exist deserve to be known, so they can scam hundreds of millions more out of the government.

[@fedev80]

Aaaand there weren't any human remains. Just liberal noise, that's all, move along...

[@spellman007]

now do America.

[@yenxion6516]

I grew up in Alaska and some of my teachers are Native Alaskan and they use to tell us stories of them when they were younger and how they were hit for speaking their language at school.

[@kappanilo]

Hi Yen - yes unfortunately we've heard these experiences as well. It's really heartbreaking and unimaginably cruel.

[@nena4215]

This is sickening, yet another horrific catholic tragedy.....I was raised catholic and I never went back

[@jupitereye4322]

"Its about as certain as we can get". No, you can excavate properly and find exactly what are you looking at. So the natural question is why are these places not excavated properly to identify the bodies?

[@Peoppell]

So sad and horrific that so much pain, suffering and sometimes death was visited on these precious children. I hope there is some way for their families to get justice and some level of completeness… I am not sure how you make a people ‘whole’ from something that is so terrorising. Rest In Peace little ones…we think of you always…and pledge ‘never, never again’. Justice for the lost.

[@pieterdeiman3736]

The church again, out of the name of what they call god. I can't help it... I see the church also does a lot of good nowadays... But.... In Indonesia the church destroyed local animistic cultures... Out of the name of their god.. As well. The most beautifull art pieces send to Holland. In Australia.. The aboriginals.. Similar. Now Christians are rather subdued. All out of religion.. I believe in what I believe.. But have no religion and do not want it. I love beautifull churches... Many in Europe. But... The messed up regally... Very very very sad. Those poor children... Who had their own believes.

[@jliriano8543]

Imagine the graves on American soil? 🇺🇸

[@bethmccallum6156]

The search has started.

[@kaleycooper9111]

Probably too many to count.

[@romaynedaniels7736]

Who are the real savages?

[@methsmokingneanderthaltrai5309]

It has *ALWAYS* been Wypipo 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️💯💯👍🏿

[@АлександрКарамазов-в8с]

Europe

[@silverhost9782]

Your mum

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

@@methsmokingneanderthaltrai5309 We do descend from barbarians, which I think is pretty cool.

[@humbertsmith8864]

Would be nice to have some follow up...It has been a year and not a single exhumation

[@sawatisbillings8759]

NYAWEH for this. This has happened in america also. My mother was sent to Quaker school near Seneca Nation Allegheny NY. as a kid I was forced to go to a Baptist church on a WNY rez. In Sunday school I had to defend/fight against half breed kids who constantly called me down as I was a dark ONKWEHONWE kid.

[@kappanilo]

Hi thank you for this comment. And thank you for sharing some of you and your family's experience 🧡

[@bearswithglasses]

So sorry you experienced this. I can't imagine how tough it must have been. I hope that you're doing well now in spite of it.

[@chinesememer]

Colonialism at its finest. Turn the victim against each other.

[@sharonannrees2824]

I am ashamed that while I was being educated in public school, native children were still required to attend these schools. They were kept a secret from us all! Had I known I would have spoken out in outrage! The indigenous people revere nature and the land which colonialists destroyed! My heart aches about this horrible treatment!

[@Meteyard97]

stereotyping a whole ethnicity is racist please educate yourself

[@rangers94ism]

Why? It's not like they were being killed. They were just receiving education

[@ziakhan-wr4gs]

It's extremely heart breaking! Still there is same atrocities going on to children, women and men across the world Yamen , Palestinian, Syria, Iraq,Libya and many more

[@mohammadalshameh5042]

Can I ask by whom?

[@nesser52]

I'm indigenous North Asian (Siberia). We feel your pain 💔🌏

[@gauaahai7373]

Weird how Whte ppl who have ancestors who were native almost 100 yrs ago are considered natives but Latinos who have the most native blood than anyone are not called indigenous or are shamed if they call themselves indigenous by 1/32 natives it’s just off

[@jeebsunabia7972]

I am so angry right now. Reminds me of all the atrocities the Spanish colonizers committed to all the native Filipinos.

[@jeebsunabia7972]

@Robert Leewell Why would it be manipulation?

[@jeebsunabia7972]

Why would you diminish how I feel? I feel the hurt. And that makes me angry. Which is a valid feeling. And who said anything about revenge? I would think the better recourse is accountability. And healing.

[@jeebsunabia7972]

@Robert Leewell Bye, troll.

[@samkhpak]

Catholic church should answer for this savagery act.

[@cm-bp4ow]

They did and apologized, but they shouldn’t have. The pope apologized for nothing. What’s disgraceful is how the native tribes manipulated and shamed the Catholic Church to force and apology of something that never happened.

[@hera7884]

The people who did this were Godless human beings.

[@slimjimhero]

That's probably exactly what they thought of the children.

[@hera7884]

@@slimjimhero I mean, obviously if they were trying to convert them? Did you not watch the video?

[@imami2549]

This has made me think about Canada in a completely different light, behind all that friendliness lies deep rooted evil beyond anything we could imagine. I'm sickened.

[@RevivedSaiyan]

Alot of us from the last 30 years had no clue about this

[@ascoop22]

@@RevivedSaiyan Maybe you were in bed when the Fifth Estate made a doc about residential schools in 1991. Residential schools were always a well known fact and were never covered up. Many native parents were glad to see their kids go to them to be taken care of and many survivors of the schools were glad that they had gone and had good memories.

[@sharehard]

except they haven't found any bodies.

[@guyfoxyinc.8042]

Its a good thing no bodies were found

[@Meteyard97]

feel better now it was all a lie

[@amronnog]

Dr Supernant is THE person that any archaeologist working with indigenous groups goes to when looking for ways of doing ethical archaeology. She's a true hero.

[@kappanilo]

Dr. Supernant is indeed really inspiring. And she's super kind too!

[@joanna0988]

@Dope Cat She should be paid for her work and that doesn't mean that she also can't be praised for her dedication, compassion and skill

[@caleviwin]

You mean the lady who didn't find any bodies lol

[@beachboys3326]

@@caleviwin Wtf are you blithering on about? Lunatic

[@marypoppins3618]

China is doing this today to the Uyghers

[@sassillama9873]

And here we are today after much digging not 1 of the claimed over 200 children or any human or non human has been found. Emphasis on the actual excavations done, they found no one. I wonder how much money was made from this lie?!

[@MrWiskytango]

So can we acknowledge that the mass grave wasn’t true.

[@Vraptor1]

there was a mass grave. people died. there were whistleblowers that said these institutions are severely damaging to children, and the canadian state suppressed that. you are buying into the canadian state’s official narrative

[@sendmeyourlocation1145]

Yeah it's nothing but another hoax tulsa 21 to wwll and now this hoax

[@Esther-32013]

Will you be doing a piece on American residential schools as well?

[@JDesrosiers]

Terrible story. Have they found any bodies?

[@Podcastforthewin]

Ha no

[@skybot9998]

Anyone know how many bodies have been exhumed?

[@AndresPerez-tg9ms]

Thank you for continuing exposing this horrible genocide! We hope we learn when we accept the past… it’s a shame what happened, but it’s even worse the denied!

[@kappanilo]

Thank you for your comment, Andres.

[@ascoop22]

There was no genocide. It was a cultural genocide, big difference.

[@pistolpete667]

Good news. There was no genocide. Not one body was found in these supposed mass graves

[@kltil5082]

Apparently the truth is "denial" now. Tell me Andres, what did all this radar turn up? Let us know after you look it up.

[@KillerCammy85]

As a decendent of survivors thank you for shining a light on this dark tragedy. Its important we all learn the truth and find all those stolen to bring them home. May their souls find peace with the creator and may survivors find healing knowing their voices are finally being heard by more and more people.

[@kappanilo]

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and sending this thoughtful comment 🧡

[@beachboys3326]

@Zoot Rollo Liar

[@Sjwolosz321]

@@hinglemckringleberry7372 You must have watched Matt Walsh !! .. That's what led me to my own investigation. He was right . Its amazing that they said it was a mass grave for certain but never found one bone . Trudy paid homage to am underground septic system .. LOLLL . Sounds about right . . They perpetuated a lie , threw money at it , put on the veil of victim hood and blamed Whitey

[@Meteyard97]

well you learnt the truth, how does it taste hahhahazhah

[@rangers94ism]

A descendant of what tragedy. You know, when it comes to the Holocaust there are pictures, film, documentation, survivors with physical scares, and witnesses. Here, there are a couple of nuts with some claims that are backed up by nothing.

[@seaside2001]

After intensive investigation it has turned out that not one body has been found.

[@jaydeshaw3394]

Still looking. Still haven't found so much as a bone. Still pushing the story.

[@keymot1491]

White, genocidal

[@Tribuneoftheplebs]

​@@keymot1491 its true. No proof of unmarked graves yet. Just known grave sites found..

[@milkclouds4996]

My family comes from a line of slaves, with my great grandmother being the last to be born into slavery. While our stories are different, I do understand. I pray for healing for their community, and healing for the souls of their children.

[@SongofaBeach2012]

I am also the daughter of a sharecropper and a descendant of slaves. May God Bless you and our ancestors.

[@mewesquirrel6720]

Girl this isn't slavery, it's GENOCIDE. All the way to the 90s

[@athenasuperheldin1017]

@@mewesquirrel6720 slavery also came with genocide!

[@mewesquirrel6720]

@@athenasuperheldin1017 no it was just the way of life. Everyone was either enslaved or had master ancestors

[@athenasuperheldin1017]

@@mewesquirrel6720 slavery especially the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism were NOT just „the way of life“. Either you are delusional or just trolling

[@daveistrading]

Zero human remains have ever been found at any residential school. Compensation paid by country Canada $5 Billion, Australia $3 billion, New Zealand and USA $1 billion. India, China, Russia all had the same horrific schools with the same goals of assimilation but paid ZERO compensation

[@kltil5082]

Only white people have to pay compensation for things that every other culture has done

[@jeffspicolli593]

SCAM!

[@helenedesforges3483]

Russia treat their Inuit better than canada . Russian Inuit don’t pay one single penny for electricity made on their land .

[@nearcancelled]

Searching for the last graves...you haven't found the first

[@ZeruWilde]

Glad to see more coverage of this. Sad to hear these truths

[@TheHeidi2024]

The Catholic Church of Canada as a whole should be held accountable for these innocent children!…it’s on their watch and they know it!..

[@trickpony111]

All so heartbreaking for these babies. Rest their sweet poor souls.

[@kecym.4808]

May the families found justice and peace 💕

[@dreperez8403]

Where are the bodies? This is an incredible claim.

[@elbiyoo]

Headline: Many indigenous children were abused and died in a residential school in Nebraska. Very similar to the Canadian schools that Nilo Tabrizy reported on. Do you think there might be more than one?

[@gabe_20xx]

"So that was all a lie"

[@paulmaxwell8851]

It's important to understand that a 'geophysical anomaly' can be most anything. Disturbed native soil, a brick, a stone, glass, scrap metal, a bit of fence post......It is foolish to suggest that anomalies are graves. Start digging, and when a body is found we may call this a grave. Until then, this is sensationalism.

[@chinesememer]

How about start by giving tribal court jurisdiction over outsiders committing crimes on reserve?

[@amy4956]

I watched a documentary about a residential school survivor and she talked about the priests, and how they would often sexually assault Native American teenage girls. It was said by her that the priest would take the baby and put them in the walls of the church. It’s so messed up, I can’t remember the exact name but it was a granddaughter focusing on her grandmother. If you know the name please write it down below 💕

[@megan893]

Did you watch it on KZbin? If so, maybe check your watch history

[@FOJO27]

CBC Docs on KZbin: "Inendi" by Sarain Fox Full title of the doc: "My Auntie survived residential school. I need to gather her stories before she's gone / Inendi" December 2020

[@FOJO27]

Direct link to Inendi : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqC4h3ugp5argZI

[@megan893]

@@FOJO27 oh my gosh, thank you so much! I'm going to watch it tomorrow

[@kltil5082]

Any proof of this? Babies in walls found anywhere? This ended up being a lie, so I wouldn't be surprised if yet another hit piece with more sensational claims were as well.

[@blakelawless6620]

"That's about as certain as we can get" Umm no, an excavation would be as certain as you can get. Any guesses as to why one hasn't been conducted yet? 🤔

[@2PMisTimeless]

I hate the world. I hate human so much. I don't even see myself as human. Greedy, selfish people. So much wars still goin on, look at those poor people who still suffer until today. No apology , no help , nothing. People look away. they care more about newest iphones or BTS. Wtf I wish i would had been born on some planet with proper loving beings who care for their nature and each other.

[@ktf8]

Ok

[@АлександрКарамазов-в8с]

Feels bad man 😔 I wish I was a rock instead

[@silverhost9782]

Ok

[@ygjt76v0-----]

Canada is asia before

[@DeRocco21]

were any bodies found?

[@Fatkidlovecake]

😂😂 9:54 bro this is just sooo cringe to watch

[@bryanmcdonald4351]

This is so disgusting. When do the trials start for all the child molester/murderers?

[@CanadianBear47]

Lols u funny.

[@anonama]

watch the video until the very end sir