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Ian Dale's avatar

You are wonderful, Michelle, to keep plugging away with such steadfast respect to the facts.

Michelle Stirling's avatar

Thank you. My thanks also to Nina Green for her exceptional research which forms the basis of many of my articles, and certainly is the backbone of "The Bitter Roots of 'Sugarcane'", my mini-doc no budget rebuttal to "Sugarcane". Onward!

John Brodie's avatar

Michelle, you deserve a medal.

Michelle Stirling's avatar

Thank you. I would just like Canada to go back to normal - pre-2015, actually. Or something close to that. We press on! I'm grateful for people's support.

Nancy Froment's avatar

Thanks for always setting the record straight. I find it unbelievable that we continue to hand out money and land. What can the future hold if we just keep this up? No one even seems to talk about how to get this to ever stop. Let alone get our money back or consequences for defamation.

Tildeb's avatar
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Look at how Canadians are taught to think about Residential Schools and the concern for those who died over 133 years.

Now look how Canadian are taught to think about the Duplessis orphans (as far as I can tell, there's nothing in curriculum covering this multi-decade shame) and the concern for about TEN THOUSAND orphans categorized as 'insane' (probably done in the name for institutionalized increased funding versus simply orphaned)... many of whom were abused and used for experimentation, left without any schooling or child centred upbringing. This is how the supposed 'colonizers' dealt with their 'own' unwanted babies with the mothers sharing the same social problems of young indigenous women. In other words, race was not the driving factor for poor treatment of many thousands of children but the lack of resources and proper administration affected EVERYONE similarly.

In other words, we have created a special false narrative for indigenous kids alone and taught young people across the country to simply believe it, that indigenous children specifically were targeted as if by official racist policy that was then carried out with malicious intentions by religious co-conspirators. This is the fiction. There can be no honest reconciliation by going along with a fiction and calling it 'Truth' no matter how many tens of billions of dollars are transferred by this blood libel framing. Criminalizing the pursuit of truth - a pursuit of truth as Nina and Michelle and many others are trying to do - is shameful and outrageous as is the gloss of pretending there is 'academic support' for this false narrative. A house built on falsehoods and deceitful materials cannot stand and those who support its building are culpable of negligence.

Tildeb's avatar

Trivial, I know, but just before the Location of Death graph, I read, "Over 133 years and 139 schools..."

Then, a few paragraphs later, "Even if 4,100 children died at Indian Residential Schools over the course of 113 years, this divided over 139 schools..." I suspect that "113" needs correction.

Michelle Stirling's avatar

Good eye. I'll fix that. Yes, the discrepancy is that the graph shows 133, but the official line is that it was 113 years.

Brad Eamer's avatar

Canadians that are intelligent, well read, and not naïve in accepting the “Indian Industry” propaganda are slowly becoming the majority. It’s the cowardly Politicians, those that control the purse strings, that are required to now admit this fraud that was perpetrated on Canada.

Barry Imhoff's avatar

Keep up the great work Michelle. People like Carleton and Sinclair conveniently forget that the commission Sinclair’s father chaired was the TRUTH and Reconciliation Commission. Truth always gets tossed aside while they promote their genocide fantasy.

UncleMac's avatar

I stopped subscribing to the Grope & Maul more than a decade ago. They've become nothing more than a propaganda rag. While I don't have any choice about funding that with my taxes, I didn't want to fund it directly with a subscription.