Many Canadians - and particularly indigenous Canadians - are now firmly convinced that at least some version of the secret burial story is true. This will have profound implications for the future of this country. If Goebbels had been hired to indoctrinate the country he could not have done a better job than did the reckless indigenous activists, aided by a witless prime minister and an incompetent media
If someone shot Trump because Biden called him a threat to democracy, etc, etc, what might people do if they keep hearing Canada and clergy committed a genocide against native children? And, yes, a surprising number of native people really think the genocide story is true. I suspect the reasons for that are entirely psychological: people want to believe the horror stories are true, they seem to need them to be true.
Everyone already knows the answer to your question --- they burned down churches. As to entirely "psychological":-
All Canadians have heard from a retired Judge and Senator that 215 BODIES of unknown children were discovered at Kamloops, with more to come (June 1, 2021 CBC address) --- corroborated by a nice looking and nice sounding modern female Chief of an obviously progressive first nation. Three hundred politicians and the assembly of First Nations called the residential schools a GENOCIDE. and were unanimous. The Pope "agreed" that the residential schools were a genocide. Who would "psychologically" disagree with all of that unanimous agreement???
However almost no one knows that the Pope's Chief Canadian Archbishop "advisor" is Archbishop Richard Smith, of Eastern Canada, who is Edmonton Alberta's Archbishop,and most importantly Wilton Littlechild's very good friend. Smith apparently knows nothing about the relationship of Western Canadians to all of the Cree, the Blackfoot Alliance and the Sioux (except, arguably what Littlechild told Smith). Sitting Bull did not call the American-Canadian border the MEDICINE LINE because Westerners were universally "mean" to first nations folks.
In Nova Scotia, from where Smith originates, by sharp contrast (to the West), a colonial governor was allegedly paying bounties for proofs of Mic Mac exterminations --- although there is much debate about that allegation. Per the contrast, we had the Northwest Mounted Police out here in Alberta to stop people, of any colour or ethnicity, from killing each other in the Northwest Territories. They "maintained the right"s of everybody, unlike ancient "family compact" colonial governors.
We have a big country with a lot of differences in diverse geographical locations at diverse times. One thing about British colonizers. They learned from their mistakes. They treated Canada and Australia very differently from America after they lost the American colonies. The Commonwealth of Nations was a truly great British "idea" and accomplishment, which is being entirely destroyed with/by "critical" race Marxist crap (not "theory", for a theory is repetitively confirmed hypothesis and Marxism is a repetitively confirmed "major f-up" wherever its applied).
This lie is being taught in our schools!...I agree with you that this can't help but have long lasting and "profoundly" damaging effects for racial harmony in our country for the long term. I say that as an advocate for Indians. This is the sad legacy of the inherent complacency in our Canadian culture. I appreciate your (and others) noble efforts in this forum Brian. Unfortunately more often than not, I feel we're "preaching to the choir". "Grave Error" to its credit has made a significant contribution to correcting the false narrative even if its impact as far as I can tell has been somewhat minimal. The lie still persists in the mainstream of Canadian society. Kevin Byrne below suggests an "indictment". Is that a legal option? Would it advance the Truth?
Roseanne Casimir would not last 1 minute on the witness stand if she was called as a witness for either the prosecution or defence in a Murray Sinclair indictment. She appears to be the sort of abused (or formerly abused) person who exactly regurgitates whatever she has been told to say --- and since she has been told different things by different people, their contradictions is what she'd end up regurgitating on any stand until she'd admit it. I was just doing what I was told, with tears (little doubt). Next question --- Who told you what to say? Probable Answer:- Donald Worme K.C. --- lead counsel of the TRC from 2009 - 2015 who just happened to be the Secwepemc "counsel" out at Kamloops at their July 2021 "spin doctor" fest. These clowns are such amateur colluders that a U.S. muck-raker attorney would eat the lot of them alive BEFORE BREAKFAST were it not for the Canadian Family Compact GONE SENILE --- which includes Brian Giesbrecht.
No Brian. Primarily aided and abetted by witless judges and crooked "take a dive" federal lawyers --- especially lawyers like Murray Sinclair, Wilton Littlechild and Jodi Wilson Reybould --- and yourself. You could walk into any Court in the Country tomorrow and indict Murray Sinclair on your own volition. But you won't do it because you are a lawyer and you lawyers always stick together.
I think you might make a somewhat valid point (although I'm not a lawyer) but to be fair I think the same challenge, to "indict" could apply to you and I as well. However I do believe that the ethical obligation to "indict" the perpetrators and facilitators of this intensely damaging ,heinous and false narrative falls more to our leaders/politicians than ordinary citizens or lawyers. The irresponsible media who carried the ball (many still do) for this false narrative are also hugely implicit by their lack of action.
It does apply to you and me as well. I called the cops (R.C.M.P.) about this matter just before the July long week-end of 2021 after the second bogus "discovery" at the Cowessess reserve (June 24, 2021) which was known (by the 3 TRC Commissioners and their Executive Director Kimberly Murray as of 2015) to be a CEMETERY --- repeat a known CEMETERY as reported to all 3 TRC commissioners; of which 2 were lawyers; and also reported to Kimberly Murray, a 3rd lawyer, in 2015.
I literally yelled at this one cop that it was going to get extremely nasty if the Indigenous folks made one more bogus "discovery" from the list of CEMETERIES in Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report to the TRC of 2015. I thought the next "discovery" was going to be in Southern Alberta at the Siksika reserve, near Gleichen, because the News people had said that some elders would be searching on the July long weekend and Hamilton had satellite images of a CEMETERY full of unmarked graves from a probable small pox epidemic in the 1860's which must be in the multiple 100s, given the apparent number of sunken graveshafts, per figures 75 and 76 of Scott Hamilton's "Companion Set of Illustrations" to his Report of 2015 to the TRC.
The next bogus "discovery" was actually at St. Eugene's at Cranbrook [June 30, 2021] and it got "extremely nasty" with Church burnings and a lot of vandalizations in Calgary where I live. All 3 of the initial B.S. "discoveries" are listed as CEMETERIES on the first paragraph of page 15 of Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report "Where are the Children Buried?"
When I found out from Nina Green, via Frances Widdowson's website, that Murray Sinclair had a grandmother who wanted him to be a priest, I realized that he had to be a baptized Catholic. So I wrote a Canon Law Case "indicting" him as well as Littlechild to have them (Marie Wilson too) suitably punished by our Pope! Little did I know at the time that Archbishop Smith of Edmonton is "best friends" (or close) with Wilton Littlechild.
Needless to say, my Canon Law case didn't even get a file number, let alone a formal rejection. So I have already "Catholic Indicted" the scoundrels, and have constantly (and unsuccessfully) encouraged Frances Widdowson, Jim School Teacher, Hymie Rubenstein and HIs less-than-Honourable friend, Brian Giesbrecht, to legally indict these crooked creeps of the TRC. They're worse (Giesbrecht et alia) than my ignorant Catholic friends. Get this --- we had a lawyer in our Knights of Columbus Council who lost his law degree for defrauding his charges in the Residential School Settlement. He is a "star" of the Wikipedia Article on the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement under a later heading described as "Conduct of Certain Lawyers".
So the Canadian Bishops already know about Catholic lawyers playing fast and loose as parts'-n-parcel of Widdowson's alleged "Aboriginal Industry". They're so scandal shy, after the "diddling altar boys or students" fiascoes of the 1990's, and the residential school alleged "discoveries" (of 2021), that they lawyer up after any "wisp" of sulphur in the "spiritual wind" as it were.
That is probably why they never replied to Hymie Rubenstein's missives and have even "shut down" former Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary. On top of that, the Catholic Church is slow. They take 400 years to argue out any tiny bit of doctrine --- which is why it is DOCTRINE after a 400 year debate on whether or not it should become a Catholic Doctrine --- 400 year arguments by smarter Canon Lawyers, theologians and/or philosophers than either B. Giesbrecht or Bruce Pardy!
For any skimmers who may have missed it, the Kisha Supernant article referenced here appeared in Scientific American in April of this year. Scientific American.
Supernant had me from her very opening words: “A late summer prairie wind swung my beaded earrings as I looked down . . .” And by that I mean, she had me double-checking the link to see if it was a spoof website.
Michael, did you submit your commentary to Sci. Am.? I notice that in its current (July/August) issue, Sci. Am. has published a couple of very brief reader responses to stuff that was in the March 2024 issue, so perhaps feedback only appears several issues later. And they appear to print only letter-to-the-editor-length comments of a few sentences. Let’s hope the readership pushes back hard on this sappy Supernant material – even if the magazine (which of course is leftish, and not peer reviewed) does not deign to publish any counter-narrative comments.
A colleague was dealing with contacting SciAm. They gave us several conditions one of which was to have our reply ready by July 4. We met all their conditions but in the end SciAm gave us the cold shoulder after being fairly quick in response. This rebuttal was consequently never sent to SciAm.
You missed the best scientific part of her article, quote
SUPERNANT: I glimpsed the rich red ocher spread across the insides of my wrists before instinctively brushing my fingers against my temples to check that I remembered to put the paste there. The ocher allowed us to be VISIBLE TO THE ANCESTORS while digging at the archaeological site nearby; every person stepping off the boat that day had to follow this protocol.
QUESTION: When a child is buried in an unmarked grave at the age of, say, 7 years, to whom is that child an ancestor?
The article was written for Scientific American after a submitted request to reply to Supernant’s piece. They imposed a limit of 1,000 which isn’t a lot and means I have to choose what points to make and which ones to leave out. The ochre dabs were bizarre and shows where she is willing to introduce subjective values in an ostensibly scientific discipline.
I don't think that "ochre smearing so that the ancestors may see us" is an example of a "subjective value". I think that religious practices and beliefs are objective, given that many independent SUBJECTS actually believe in the OBJECTS under consideration, such as ancestors and/or creators who may somehow "watch us". Such arguably objective [many subjects consider the same alleged objects] belief systems are simply UNVERIFIABLE or not PROVABLE with a controlled science experiment or test.
e.g. If God exists, how can you CONTROL a God Experiment such that God is eliminated from the CONTROL situation and is present in the TEST situation, so that one may compare the difference. Admittedly, lots of people of religious persuasion, bring up the godless Soviet Union and other situations where large portions of a population quit believing in a Supreme Being --- e.g. The bloody French revolution vs. the less bloody American revolution. But I digress.
Whether Louis Pasteur prays before trying to find a cure for anthrax, given his serious Catholicism, or Kisha Supernant smears ochre on herself before looking for the remains of her ancestors is arguably IRRELEVANT to how they deal with data. The controlled acquisition of data and the willingness to let data, tests and formulae DETERMINE one's decisions --- no matter our subjective or religious BIASES --- makes for a SCIENTIFIC method. Supernant is obviously guided by BOTH her religious BIASES and her SUBJECTIVE biases when talking about "remains" or "children" before she has scientifically corroborated scientific data with actual remains of former indigenous children.
And if she is running her equipment in a neglected cemetery the only thing that would be "heart wrenching" would be the NEGLECT aspect, not the ":remains" aspect, given that many people died young before modern medicine became "modern" by means of the scientific method.
Hold her there, Newton!!! Michael Melanson GOT IT RIGHT when he said, quote:
MELANSON: Supernant introduces her confirmation BIAS at the beginning of her article: “A disruption appeared ..." etc. etc. [2nd last pgph. of article]
And by the way, since I was busy trying to light a fire under Giesbrecht's Judicial "seat" (as usual), rather than speak to your article. I clocked it in at 1050 words by removing the title, which was a fine rebuttal and concise bit of actually "critical thinking". Well said/written!!! No wonder they refused to publish. It was simply TOO DARN GOOD for biased twits to publish.
Kevin, you must be one of those people who has trouble "suspending disbelief" : ) Me too.
I like your highlighted passage. All that's missing here is a heaving bosom. Maybe Harlequin – I mean Scientific American – edited that out.
In fairness to Supernant, those particular recollections are from a field trip during her student days, so they don’t reference children’s graves. I guess the elders were concerned that the ancestors might object to their presence, but if that was the case, you’d think they’d want to remain INVISIBLE. (I guess you have to be indigenous to understand these rituals.)
I'm of Irish descent. We're afraid of Banshees and Little People. Luckily our branch of the Irish on the auld sod didn't have any virgins for our Druid priests to sacrifice! Speaking of "heaving bosom"-es, have you seen Supernant's UofA photo?
I wonder how many drooling 18 year old boys sign up for her course? Probably not that many given web porn, which she presents a reasonable facsimile thereof in her scholastic photo.
“Since the schools were church-run, parents enrolled their children according to their respective denominations which indicates that they were already Christians.” This is an important statement because Canada has described itself as culturally genocidal for its residential schools. Indigenous people had abandoned some of their culture long before the schools were built.
In keeping with the mythological context of Supernant's fairy tail, I think it is only fair to point out the most logical place to find the "Lost Children" she seeks and believed to have been murdered by the nefarious faith communities operating those Residential Schools, is in the well known realm of fictional children's stories like Peter Pan. I have it on good authority from Wendy and John Darling that all those so called lost children are alive and well in Never Land living happily under the supervision of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.
"Children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." – J.M. Barrie
Many Canadians - and particularly indigenous Canadians - are now firmly convinced that at least some version of the secret burial story is true. This will have profound implications for the future of this country. If Goebbels had been hired to indoctrinate the country he could not have done a better job than did the reckless indigenous activists, aided by a witless prime minister and an incompetent media
If someone shot Trump because Biden called him a threat to democracy, etc, etc, what might people do if they keep hearing Canada and clergy committed a genocide against native children? And, yes, a surprising number of native people really think the genocide story is true. I suspect the reasons for that are entirely psychological: people want to believe the horror stories are true, they seem to need them to be true.
Everyone already knows the answer to your question --- they burned down churches. As to entirely "psychological":-
All Canadians have heard from a retired Judge and Senator that 215 BODIES of unknown children were discovered at Kamloops, with more to come (June 1, 2021 CBC address) --- corroborated by a nice looking and nice sounding modern female Chief of an obviously progressive first nation. Three hundred politicians and the assembly of First Nations called the residential schools a GENOCIDE. and were unanimous. The Pope "agreed" that the residential schools were a genocide. Who would "psychologically" disagree with all of that unanimous agreement???
However almost no one knows that the Pope's Chief Canadian Archbishop "advisor" is Archbishop Richard Smith, of Eastern Canada, who is Edmonton Alberta's Archbishop,and most importantly Wilton Littlechild's very good friend. Smith apparently knows nothing about the relationship of Western Canadians to all of the Cree, the Blackfoot Alliance and the Sioux (except, arguably what Littlechild told Smith). Sitting Bull did not call the American-Canadian border the MEDICINE LINE because Westerners were universally "mean" to first nations folks.
In Nova Scotia, from where Smith originates, by sharp contrast (to the West), a colonial governor was allegedly paying bounties for proofs of Mic Mac exterminations --- although there is much debate about that allegation. Per the contrast, we had the Northwest Mounted Police out here in Alberta to stop people, of any colour or ethnicity, from killing each other in the Northwest Territories. They "maintained the right"s of everybody, unlike ancient "family compact" colonial governors.
We have a big country with a lot of differences in diverse geographical locations at diverse times. One thing about British colonizers. They learned from their mistakes. They treated Canada and Australia very differently from America after they lost the American colonies. The Commonwealth of Nations was a truly great British "idea" and accomplishment, which is being entirely destroyed with/by "critical" race Marxist crap (not "theory", for a theory is repetitively confirmed hypothesis and Marxism is a repetitively confirmed "major f-up" wherever its applied).
This lie is being taught in our schools!...I agree with you that this can't help but have long lasting and "profoundly" damaging effects for racial harmony in our country for the long term. I say that as an advocate for Indians. This is the sad legacy of the inherent complacency in our Canadian culture. I appreciate your (and others) noble efforts in this forum Brian. Unfortunately more often than not, I feel we're "preaching to the choir". "Grave Error" to its credit has made a significant contribution to correcting the false narrative even if its impact as far as I can tell has been somewhat minimal. The lie still persists in the mainstream of Canadian society. Kevin Byrne below suggests an "indictment". Is that a legal option? Would it advance the Truth?
Roseanne Casimir would not last 1 minute on the witness stand if she was called as a witness for either the prosecution or defence in a Murray Sinclair indictment. She appears to be the sort of abused (or formerly abused) person who exactly regurgitates whatever she has been told to say --- and since she has been told different things by different people, their contradictions is what she'd end up regurgitating on any stand until she'd admit it. I was just doing what I was told, with tears (little doubt). Next question --- Who told you what to say? Probable Answer:- Donald Worme K.C. --- lead counsel of the TRC from 2009 - 2015 who just happened to be the Secwepemc "counsel" out at Kamloops at their July 2021 "spin doctor" fest. These clowns are such amateur colluders that a U.S. muck-raker attorney would eat the lot of them alive BEFORE BREAKFAST were it not for the Canadian Family Compact GONE SENILE --- which includes Brian Giesbrecht.
Kevin James "Joseph" Byrne
No Brian. Primarily aided and abetted by witless judges and crooked "take a dive" federal lawyers --- especially lawyers like Murray Sinclair, Wilton Littlechild and Jodi Wilson Reybould --- and yourself. You could walk into any Court in the Country tomorrow and indict Murray Sinclair on your own volition. But you won't do it because you are a lawyer and you lawyers always stick together.
Kevin James "Joseph" Byrne
I think you might make a somewhat valid point (although I'm not a lawyer) but to be fair I think the same challenge, to "indict" could apply to you and I as well. However I do believe that the ethical obligation to "indict" the perpetrators and facilitators of this intensely damaging ,heinous and false narrative falls more to our leaders/politicians than ordinary citizens or lawyers. The irresponsible media who carried the ball (many still do) for this false narrative are also hugely implicit by their lack of action.
It does apply to you and me as well. I called the cops (R.C.M.P.) about this matter just before the July long week-end of 2021 after the second bogus "discovery" at the Cowessess reserve (June 24, 2021) which was known (by the 3 TRC Commissioners and their Executive Director Kimberly Murray as of 2015) to be a CEMETERY --- repeat a known CEMETERY as reported to all 3 TRC commissioners; of which 2 were lawyers; and also reported to Kimberly Murray, a 3rd lawyer, in 2015.
I literally yelled at this one cop that it was going to get extremely nasty if the Indigenous folks made one more bogus "discovery" from the list of CEMETERIES in Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report to the TRC of 2015. I thought the next "discovery" was going to be in Southern Alberta at the Siksika reserve, near Gleichen, because the News people had said that some elders would be searching on the July long weekend and Hamilton had satellite images of a CEMETERY full of unmarked graves from a probable small pox epidemic in the 1860's which must be in the multiple 100s, given the apparent number of sunken graveshafts, per figures 75 and 76 of Scott Hamilton's "Companion Set of Illustrations" to his Report of 2015 to the TRC.
https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AAAA-Hamilton-Report-Illustrations-final.pdf
The next bogus "discovery" was actually at St. Eugene's at Cranbrook [June 30, 2021] and it got "extremely nasty" with Church burnings and a lot of vandalizations in Calgary where I live. All 3 of the initial B.S. "discoveries" are listed as CEMETERIES on the first paragraph of page 15 of Dr. Scott Hamilton's Report "Where are the Children Buried?"
When I found out from Nina Green, via Frances Widdowson's website, that Murray Sinclair had a grandmother who wanted him to be a priest, I realized that he had to be a baptized Catholic. So I wrote a Canon Law Case "indicting" him as well as Littlechild to have them (Marie Wilson too) suitably punished by our Pope! Little did I know at the time that Archbishop Smith of Edmonton is "best friends" (or close) with Wilton Littlechild.
Needless to say, my Canon Law case didn't even get a file number, let alone a formal rejection. So I have already "Catholic Indicted" the scoundrels, and have constantly (and unsuccessfully) encouraged Frances Widdowson, Jim School Teacher, Hymie Rubenstein and HIs less-than-Honourable friend, Brian Giesbrecht, to legally indict these crooked creeps of the TRC. They're worse (Giesbrecht et alia) than my ignorant Catholic friends. Get this --- we had a lawyer in our Knights of Columbus Council who lost his law degree for defrauding his charges in the Residential School Settlement. He is a "star" of the Wikipedia Article on the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement under a later heading described as "Conduct of Certain Lawyers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Residential_Schools_Settlement_Agreement
So the Canadian Bishops already know about Catholic lawyers playing fast and loose as parts'-n-parcel of Widdowson's alleged "Aboriginal Industry". They're so scandal shy, after the "diddling altar boys or students" fiascoes of the 1990's, and the residential school alleged "discoveries" (of 2021), that they lawyer up after any "wisp" of sulphur in the "spiritual wind" as it were.
That is probably why they never replied to Hymie Rubenstein's missives and have even "shut down" former Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary. On top of that, the Catholic Church is slow. They take 400 years to argue out any tiny bit of doctrine --- which is why it is DOCTRINE after a 400 year debate on whether or not it should become a Catholic Doctrine --- 400 year arguments by smarter Canon Lawyers, theologians and/or philosophers than either B. Giesbrecht or Bruce Pardy!
KB
For any skimmers who may have missed it, the Kisha Supernant article referenced here appeared in Scientific American in April of this year. Scientific American.
Supernant had me from her very opening words: “A late summer prairie wind swung my beaded earrings as I looked down . . .” And by that I mean, she had me double-checking the link to see if it was a spoof website.
Michael, did you submit your commentary to Sci. Am.? I notice that in its current (July/August) issue, Sci. Am. has published a couple of very brief reader responses to stuff that was in the March 2024 issue, so perhaps feedback only appears several issues later. And they appear to print only letter-to-the-editor-length comments of a few sentences. Let’s hope the readership pushes back hard on this sappy Supernant material – even if the magazine (which of course is leftish, and not peer reviewed) does not deign to publish any counter-narrative comments.
Brilliant, as usual, with a comedic touch of sarcastic humor.
A colleague was dealing with contacting SciAm. They gave us several conditions one of which was to have our reply ready by July 4. We met all their conditions but in the end SciAm gave us the cold shoulder after being fairly quick in response. This rebuttal was consequently never sent to SciAm.
You missed the best scientific part of her article, quote
SUPERNANT: I glimpsed the rich red ocher spread across the insides of my wrists before instinctively brushing my fingers against my temples to check that I remembered to put the paste there. The ocher allowed us to be VISIBLE TO THE ANCESTORS while digging at the archaeological site nearby; every person stepping off the boat that day had to follow this protocol.
QUESTION: When a child is buried in an unmarked grave at the age of, say, 7 years, to whom is that child an ancestor?
The article was written for Scientific American after a submitted request to reply to Supernant’s piece. They imposed a limit of 1,000 which isn’t a lot and means I have to choose what points to make and which ones to leave out. The ochre dabs were bizarre and shows where she is willing to introduce subjective values in an ostensibly scientific discipline.
I don't think that "ochre smearing so that the ancestors may see us" is an example of a "subjective value". I think that religious practices and beliefs are objective, given that many independent SUBJECTS actually believe in the OBJECTS under consideration, such as ancestors and/or creators who may somehow "watch us". Such arguably objective [many subjects consider the same alleged objects] belief systems are simply UNVERIFIABLE or not PROVABLE with a controlled science experiment or test.
e.g. If God exists, how can you CONTROL a God Experiment such that God is eliminated from the CONTROL situation and is present in the TEST situation, so that one may compare the difference. Admittedly, lots of people of religious persuasion, bring up the godless Soviet Union and other situations where large portions of a population quit believing in a Supreme Being --- e.g. The bloody French revolution vs. the less bloody American revolution. But I digress.
Whether Louis Pasteur prays before trying to find a cure for anthrax, given his serious Catholicism, or Kisha Supernant smears ochre on herself before looking for the remains of her ancestors is arguably IRRELEVANT to how they deal with data. The controlled acquisition of data and the willingness to let data, tests and formulae DETERMINE one's decisions --- no matter our subjective or religious BIASES --- makes for a SCIENTIFIC method. Supernant is obviously guided by BOTH her religious BIASES and her SUBJECTIVE biases when talking about "remains" or "children" before she has scientifically corroborated scientific data with actual remains of former indigenous children.
And if she is running her equipment in a neglected cemetery the only thing that would be "heart wrenching" would be the NEGLECT aspect, not the ":remains" aspect, given that many people died young before modern medicine became "modern" by means of the scientific method.
KB
Hold her there, Newton!!! Michael Melanson GOT IT RIGHT when he said, quote:
MELANSON: Supernant introduces her confirmation BIAS at the beginning of her article: “A disruption appeared ..." etc. etc. [2nd last pgph. of article]
And by the way, since I was busy trying to light a fire under Giesbrecht's Judicial "seat" (as usual), rather than speak to your article. I clocked it in at 1050 words by removing the title, which was a fine rebuttal and concise bit of actually "critical thinking". Well said/written!!! No wonder they refused to publish. It was simply TOO DARN GOOD for biased twits to publish.
KB
As I mentioned in the note before the piece, Prof. Rouillard's comments were added to the original SciAm draft.
Kevin, you must be one of those people who has trouble "suspending disbelief" : ) Me too.
I like your highlighted passage. All that's missing here is a heaving bosom. Maybe Harlequin – I mean Scientific American – edited that out.
In fairness to Supernant, those particular recollections are from a field trip during her student days, so they don’t reference children’s graves. I guess the elders were concerned that the ancestors might object to their presence, but if that was the case, you’d think they’d want to remain INVISIBLE. (I guess you have to be indigenous to understand these rituals.)
I'm of Irish descent. We're afraid of Banshees and Little People. Luckily our branch of the Irish on the auld sod didn't have any virgins for our Druid priests to sacrifice! Speaking of "heaving bosom"-es, have you seen Supernant's UofA photo?
KB
https://www.ualberta.ca/prairie-indigenous-archaeology/people/director.html
Yeah, well, she's of good European stock : )
She has the Venus of Willendorf as BOTH her remote European and Indigenous ancestrIX. Good First Nations ancestry as well.
I wonder how many drooling 18 year old boys sign up for her course? Probably not that many given web porn, which she presents a reasonable facsimile thereof in her scholastic photo.
“Since the schools were church-run, parents enrolled their children according to their respective denominations which indicates that they were already Christians.” This is an important statement because Canada has described itself as culturally genocidal for its residential schools. Indigenous people had abandoned some of their culture long before the schools were built.
In keeping with the mythological context of Supernant's fairy tail, I think it is only fair to point out the most logical place to find the "Lost Children" she seeks and believed to have been murdered by the nefarious faith communities operating those Residential Schools, is in the well known realm of fictional children's stories like Peter Pan. I have it on good authority from Wendy and John Darling that all those so called lost children are alive and well in Never Land living happily under the supervision of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.
"Children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." – J.M. Barrie