Let's not rush to judgment on Star Blanket jawbone

The piece below written by outstanding scholar Tom Flanagan, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary and author of many books and articles on Indigenous issues, was first published by a leading Canadian media outlet on January 16, 2023.

His opinion piece nicely describes and carefully critiques the discovery of the jawbone of a young child near the former Lebret Indian Residential School on Saskatchewan’s Star Blanket Cree Indian Reserve.

More particularly, this distinguished savant employs impeccable logic and verifiable science to reveal that:

“… the Star Blanket jawbone proves nothing at all about unmarked graves or the treatment of children at Indian Residential Schools; and because of the unscientific way it has been handled, it is unlikely to offer proof of anything in the future.”

Readers will be well rewarded by the high quality of argumentation and elegant prose employed in this important opinion piece.