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Originally Posted by 81MC
I don’t mean this as discounting the number of bodies or lives lost or anything.
I’m curious if these residential schools were erected at traditional ceremonial or grave sites, and if there’s a way to identify the age of remains without exhumation? It wasn’t abnormal, afaik, for colonizers to not only destroy traditional/indigenous sites, but to defile the sites with the erection of their establishments.
I suppose it’s largely irrelevant, but I’m curious.
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I’m not sure it matters that much if we over or undercount. There are 3200 deaths that have been documented through other means out of about 150,000 victims of residential schools. So in terms of being concerns that the dead bodies shouldn’t count doesn’t really make a difference to the end conclusion
The government attempted to destroy First Nations culture and did not particularly care if children lived or died.