The government of Canada just quietly, but permanently, stopped looking for “mass graves” of Indigenous children on the campuses of that country’s residential schools. National Review ran an editorial on this topic roughly one month back. As a scholar of hate hoaxes specifically and of popular mass delusions more broadly, I want to add a word.
The mass-graves hysteria began when the rising anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu used ground-penetrating radar to scan the grounds of the old Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, searching for “the remains of children alleged to be buried there” in area fireside stories.
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