A retired Canadian bishop has challenged claims that hundreds of indigenous children died and were buried in unmarked mass graves at “residential schools” administered by the Church.
He has charged his fellow bishops to do more to defend the Church’s record.
Residential School Denialism Is on the Rise. What to Know
May 27, 2023 marked the two-year anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc’s announcement about the location of 215 potential unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Interior of British Columbia.
In recognition of the anniversary, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, used its Twitter account to post a series of tweets — viewed by almost two million users — in support of Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves at former Indian residential school sites across the country.
