Five years after Canadians were rocked by the discovery of what Indigenous leaders described as mass burial sites scattered across the country, no evidence of mass graves has been discovered. But that hasn’t stopped those leaders from continuing to insist that children were killed and buried en masse on their reservations, and that the public should take their word for it.
“I don’t think we should have to prove to anybody what happened to these people because they are there and they send us messages telling us they’re there,” Grand Chief Garrison Settee recently told attendees of the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa.
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