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Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980

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[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

This will continue to be a major problem as long as we're stuck with the word "suspected." According to this, the reason we continue to say "suspected" is because ground penetrating radar cannot be used to unambiguously confirm a burial site. So far, that requires someone to actually dig. Has there been enough digging to verify that the combination of oral history and technology is enough to go on?

Even for those of us who acknowledge the reality of the various horrors, including this one, we have to eventually stop using the word "suspected" with respect to this particular issue. There is a difference between certainty and proof and we must bridge that gap.