1. The discovery of a mass grave at Kamloops Residential School last month with as many as 215 remains was shocking but not surprising. The Canadian federal government has long known there are likely many such graves across the country but refused to investigate
2. The key thing about the residential school story is about Indigenous resistance in the face of both the government and its allies (most notably the churches) who didn't want to face the truth. This resistance continues.
3. Lots of outstanding questions still on the residential school, about the Vaticans refusal to apologize, about records still being kept hidden or destroyed, about the state and church playing the blame game against each other.
4. To understand the story better, I interviewed the historian Sarah Nickel, who both studies Indigenous activism and is from from the nation of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the community whose children were forced into Kamloops residential school jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-mass…
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