Prof. Anthony Corridor returns to debate his new article “Grave Error on Alleged Mass Graves in Canada.” Excerpt: “In latest months mass graves have been created together with the Israeli occupation and destruction of hospitals in Gaza. These grave websites are being dug up between rounds of Israeli bombing of Palestinian civilians. The proof of mutilated people popping out of Gaza’s mass graves have reportedly contained proof of organ elimination, handcuffing of medical doctors and sufferers, in addition to point-blank executions together with photographs to the pinnacle.”
Did something remotely comparable occur in Canadian residential colleges? The ebook Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Fact About Residential Faculties) says “no.” Prof. Corridor, an knowledgeable on indigenous points, tentatively concurs: :
“The authors of Grave Error’s show {that a} stable evidentiary foundation has not been established to assist the brand new thesis that mass homicide and mass graves represent an integral a part of the historical past of Indian residential colleges in Canada. I don’t agree, nonetheless, that these findings preclude the necessity to take a look at the potential function of assorted types of genocidal exercise within the transformation of northern North America from pre-Columbian instances to the Canada that exists at the moment.”
Is the cancelation of “mass grave deniers” like Frances Widdowson a menace to tutorial freedom? Tune in and see what Tony Corridor thinks.
From the interview:
Anthony Corridor: In Canada, Indian folks had treaty agreements with the Crown that they’d have training offered. By the late 1800s and all through a lot of the twentieth century, this training was offered in colleges the place Indian folks lived. After which it began to return out a few many years in the past that lots of youngster abuse occurred in these establishments, that there have been rapes and simply very ghastly issues that occurred.
But it surely took a leap ahead in 2021, when there was an announcement that mass graves had been found adjoining to the Kamloops Indian Residential Faculty. And mass graves—we see the implications in Gaza. Mass graves usually level to genocide.
And all of the sudden there’s this conception put out, and it was in a short time adopted by the federal government, by the media, that this was the truth is true. And naturally, if there are mass graves, unmarked mass graves, there’s mass homicide to go along with it—secretive, surreptitious homicide.
So all of the sudden the file of Canadian historical past—and definitely, you recognize, one of many apparent darkish spots in Canadian historical past, like each different New World nation, is the therapy of Indigenous folks And we see this in Gaza, the place there’s this phrase referred to as settler colonialism.
And so there was a really fast leaping on the bandwagon. What had occurred on the Kamloops Indian Band was the chief had made an announcement, had achieved some type of ground-penetrating radar, and one thing had confirmed up. Now, ground-penetrating radar isn’t like doing an X-ray, the place you see outlines of particular issues. There was proof that one thing was beneath the bottom on this space, however that’s it.
However in some way it was simply introduced {that a} mass grave had been found. And lo and behold, the New York Instances is overlaying it, the Washington Put up is overlaying it. Each media outlet is overlaying it. Subsequent factor you recognize, Trudeau exhibits up, begins handing out cash.