• Two_Hangmen@midwest.social
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    The wikipedia article says thousands of students did die at these schools and are buried in unmarked graves.

    There have been bodies found at some sites, but there’s a site where the native population claimed there was a mass grave and no bodies have been found yet.

    The Catholic church ran a massive ad campaign about this one site to try to push the narrative that no bodies has been found anywhere.

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    As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.

    Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.

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