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Residential schools: How half-truths (at best) morph into outright lies

Residential schools: How half-truths (at best) morph into outright lies

Examining the exaggerated death rate of Canadian Indian Residential Schools

Jul 26, 2023
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Kamloops Indian Residential School students

The following carefully crafted and meticulously documented essay written by Pim Wiebel (pseudonym), a former Indian Residential School teacher, debunks the many distortions, exaggerations, and outright fabrication involving the health and welfare of Canada’s indigenous people particularly the children who attended the Indian Residential Schools.

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It is surely a must read for anyone wanting to learn how discussion of indigenous issues has increasingly been transformed from Enlightenment-based truth telling to pre-Enlightenment propaganda and magical thinking to the detriment of the well being of ordinary indigenous people.

It is posted on the other side of the paywall with the author’s kind permission.

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