What needs to be celebrated on National Indigenous Peoples Day? – FCPP

June 20, 2024

As well as celebrating this richness and diversity, there is good reason to celebrate this June 21.  We now realize that no Indian Residential School children are missing, were never subjected to genocide, and are not buried in either individual or mass graves, as proclaimed in recent years.

That Aboriginals leaders, activists, and many ordinary Indigenous people, aided and abetted by the mainstream media, continue to expound the prevailing genocide and mass grave narrative even when it has been debunked logically and empirically should not be surprising: doing so protects their status, power, and economic well-being.

One of the best examples of this denial of truth is the reaction to the “discovery” of soil disturbances in the basement of the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church near Manitoba’s former Pine Creek Indian Residential School.

Some of the students who are still living have long spoken about the abuse they experienced there, and related “horror stories” about what happened in the basement of the church. Indigenous leaders and many residents suspected that the church held the remains of children who attended the local residential school.

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