[semigroupoid]

That may be a bit strong. What can be said is that a lot of the initial media outrage regarding the residential schools in the last few years were based on possible gravesites, discovered using ground-penetrating radar. However, multiple excavations have so far been unable to confirm those gravesites at the scales predicted, some of them even turned out to contain no human remains at all [0]. That does not excuse anything, but I find it troubling how many fairly strong claims are made in this thread with zero citations/evidence to back them up.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...

[monkeynotes]

Over 3k children buried with little to no documentation, families not informed, kids never returned to their loved one.

I don't think what I have said is strong at all. The reports are eyeopening, the level of care afforded to these kids is abysmal. The Church stood in the way of providing documentation for families to find their kids. Basically buried them and forgot where.

The fact we can't find these children is the "strong" complaint I have. You are suggesting that because we can't find over 3000 children.

The discoveries of unmarked graves began to make international headlines in May 2021, starting with the detection of 215 potential graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. This was followed by several other significant findings, including over 600 potential graves at the Marieval Indian Residential School site in Saskatchewan and 182 at the former St. Eugene's Mission School in British Columbia, among others.

All of that sounds like a very strong motivation to feel the way I do. I should not have to explain how this mistreatment is all racially motivated, too.

Lots of evidence of abhorrent mistreatment, over 3k lost children in hundreds of potential burial sites and you have the bravado to say "no one has been found" as if that means nothing is to be found.

People downplaying this stuff makes me want to vomit.

[0] https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/A...

[MeImCounting]

The article linked does not support the thrust of your comment. "In total there are presently 4,126 children within the national student memorial register.[15] Research efforts by the NCTR are ongoing, and this number will increase over time."

There are clearly more gravesites than we currently know about. The scale of this atrocity is beyond what was predicted.

[semigroupoid]

I was referring specifically to the media coverage in 2021 and later that presented fairly large numbers (in the hundreds) of possible graves. However, per the article, none of them have been confirmed yet and a number of them even debunked.

I am not denying that there are large gravesites or that terrible things happened at those schools.

[monkeynotes]

Is this[0] something you are questioning as being real news? Those are actual found bodies, 600 graves is significant amount of bodies that families never got to find out about. You know, people are alive today that have direct connection to those kids. It's not something that happened so long ago that it's just a tragedy of the past. People should be held accountable.

[0]https://apnews.com/article/canada-67da8a8af88efc91e6ffc64630....

[MeImCounting]

Oh so you were referring specifically to one of dozens of these schools "Kamloops" . Because there are undoubtedly several hundred of these graves with well over a hundred already confirmed.

Take a look a little further down the page and you can see a list with the numbers of suspected and confirmed graves per school clearly laid out. The first three examples already put the number at over a hundred.

I dont know where you imagine all those 4,126 children went when they died if not into unmarked graves?