COLLINS: Hoax? I hardly think so
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SOME CRITICS have called it “the hoax of all hoaxes.” Some major newspapers have run stories suggesting that all of the information regarding potential “bumps” in the ground found at various residential school sites in the country should be treated as a “hoax” until bodies are actually uncovered.
I wrote some time ago this would happen, and these discoveries would be treated as a conspiracy theory until proven otherwise. But now is not the time for Indigenous peoples to have a knee-jerk reaction to prove their claims. This kind of work cannot be rushed.
And why should it be? The land belongs to them, they can take their time and do the job right. Given the history of the abuse handed out at residential schools, it’s hard not to believe there are bodies buried at those sites.
Some stories, particularly in the American media, suggest there’s some anti-Catholic plot out there, which is nonsense. There’s plenty of evidence already laid out to prove the accusations against various churches in the plot to “take the Indian out of the child.”
