Grave error : how the media misled us (and the truth about residential schools)

Champion, C. P. (Christian Paul), 1970- (editor.). Flanagan, Tom, (editor.).

Summary: After the announcement by the T'kemlups First Nation of the "discovery" of unmarked graves at Kamloops, many politicians, Indigenous leaders, and media have thrown aside balance, restraint, and caution, turning truth into a casualty. The flight from truth makes true Reconciliation impossible. Why will Canadians want to extend the hand of friendship to Indigenous people who continue to call them criminals and murderers? Why will Indigenous people want to engage in mutual cooperation with people whom they have been led to regard as criminals and murderers? Getting beyond the "Grave Error" and recovering a more balanced picture of residential schools is the only road to genuine Reconciliation.

Record details

ISBN: 9798867599317 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 343 pages ; 23 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : True North and Dorchester Book, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023
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Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. In Kamloops, not one body has been found / Jacques Rouillard -- 2. Graves in the Apple Orchard / C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan -- 3. Digging for the truth about Canada's residential school graves / Hymie Rubenstein -- 4. Mass graves and other fake atrocities on the Blue Quills Indian Reserve / Hymie Rubenstein and Pim Wiebel -- 5. Billy remembers : The Tk'emlups te Secwépemc and Kamloops Indian residential school moral panic / Frances Widdowson -- 6. A media-fuelled social panic over unmarked graves / Jonathan Kay -- 7. Canada's descent into collective guilt : how the media used soil disturbances to make an entire country hate themselves / James Pew -- 8. The banality of genocide, made in Canada / Michael Melanson -- 9. We had a "knowing" : the false narrative of IRS burials / Tom Flanagan and Brian Giesbrecht -- 10. Neither truth nor reconciliation / D. Barry Kirkham KC -- 11. Asking for evidence now counts as "Denialism" / Jonathan Kay -- 12. Integration, forced assimilation, or genocide? / Pim Wiebel -- 13. Everybody's favourite dead white male / Greg Piasetzki -- 14. Were the residential schools agents of genocide? / Ian Gentles -- 15. Myths about attendance at Indian residential schools / Brian Giesbrecht and Tom Flanagan -- 16. The tainted milk murder mystery / Mark DeWolf, Rodney A. Clifton, and Hymie Rubenstein -- 17. Did Indian residential schools cause intergenerational trauma? / Tom Flanagan -- 18. My life in two Indian residential schools / Rodney A. Clifton -- Postscript : Reconciliation and Truth / C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan.
Language Note:	Includes some text in French.