In the National Post last Saturday, Paul Racher, an archaeologist, replied to my column here a week before on aspects of the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) controversy. He did not mention me but specifically took issue with several of the points that I made. Mr. Racher is more cautious in the formulation of his argument than has been the habit of others who are sympathetic to the charge that Canada as a jurisdiction and Canadians as a nationality conducted “cultural genocide” against our native people and came close to attempting physical genocide and ancillary crimes such as disposing of murdered or negligently killed native children in unmarked graves on a large scale. Any progress in conducting this important discussion back to a sober recognition of the known facts is welcome.
