Current Events > TIL no human remains were found after years of claims of 'mass graves' in Canada

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I was randomly wondering what happened to that story. I heard there was Indigenous children mass graves and then never heard the story again. So did a Google/Reddit search before asking CE. Turns out there was no evidence to support the claim why the story died and not mentioned any more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/16ugsz4/whats_going_on_with_the_canadian_residental/?rdt=41054

New York Post is garbage

Clarifying context from the reddit link posted above:

"During a lot of these discussions there was a lot of reporting on the 'Mass Graves' that were discovered. The issue with this is that the actual reports from the groups doing the investigation never initially claimed there was mass graves. What was being discovered was unmarked or forgotten burial sites.

In residential schools It has been reported that some schools had a death rate as high as 1 in 20 per student. Some deaths were from disease, others abuse, neglect but most are unknown. While many of the schools had explicit cemeteries associated with them, some did not. Even among those schools associated with cemeteries, records and even some cemeteries were lost when areas were abandoned and left to grow over. It is estimated that there is somewhere in the realm of 3,200 unmarked / lost graves.

In one specific instance the 'probable burials' were within a cemetery where the headstones of the victims were removed at some point by 'Catholic Authorities'.

It is much more accurate to refer to these as unmarked graves since when the general public thinks of a Mass Grave it brings up images that are inconsistent with the actual findings.
But this confusion in terminology is being maliciously used by some groups to try to paint the entire situation as a hoax. But there it is still highly likely that most of the sites contain graves."

MagnusX posted...

New York Post is garbage

Clarifying context from the reddit link posted above:

"During a lot of these discussions there was a lot of reporting on the 'Mass Graves' that were discovered. The issue with this is that the actual reports from the groups doing the investigation never initially claimed there was mass graves. What was being discovered was unmarked or forgotten burial sites.

In residential schools It has been reported that some schools had a death rate as high as 1 in 20 per student. Some deaths were from disease, others abuse, neglect but most are unknown. While many of the schools had explicit cemeteries associated with them, some did not. Even among those schools associated with cemeteries, records and even some cemeteries were lost when areas were abandoned and left to grow over. It is estimated that there is somewhere in the realm of 3,200 unmarked / lost graves.

In one specific instance the 'probable burials' were within a cemetery where the headstones of the victims were removed at some point by 'Catholic Authorities'.

It is much more accurate to refer to these as unmarked graves since when the general public thinks of a Mass Grave it brings up images that are inconsistent with the actual findings.
But this confusion in terminology is being maliciously used by some groups to try to paint the entire situation as a hoax. But there it is still highly likely that most of the sites contain graves."

I didn't think Reddit was a news source. I clearly said in OP I did a Reddit search and it just so happened the exact second post is what inspired the topic. I will just close the topic. Wanted to discuss the story didn't want to see the Reddit thread I got inspsired from be the topic. It just feels like why come to GameFAQs when Reddit is the place with the info.