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Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100%.

History should never be glossed over or denied (though historical candor is painfully uncommon). If we are to better ourselves as humans, we need to look at our past, warts and all.

History is meant to be there for us to learn from our mistakes. however we're addicted to our own hubris and like a junkie, and are hopelessly trapped in perpetual cycle of self destruction