“Anomaly” was a word many people had never heard of before it was applied by ground penetrating radar (GPR) specialists to the results of their work looking for the remains of indigenous children said to have never made it home from their Indian Residential Schools.
Since mid-2021, with an announcement heard around the world from the Kamloops Indian Reserve about the burials of students in unmarked graves who attended its former Aboriginal residential school, the term has gained widespread usage as indigenous leaders and activists have routinely converted GPR “anomalies” to the actual “discovery” of the “remains” of hundreds of Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves near their former Indian Residential Schools.
