The Deception of the Aboriginal Industry
Methods of Examining the Lies
Earlier this week, Barbara Kay sent me an essay written by one of her readers, Barry Kirkham, asking if I had any interest in publishing it. After reading, I was very interested and reached out to Barry right away with a request to publish it on Woke Watch Canada. Barry had put together a clearly written and comprehensive essay regarding the truthfulness of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's six volume report - especially the last two volumes which serve as summaries. His essay draws heavily on the book From Truth Comes Reconciliation edited by Rodney A. Clifton and Mark DeWolf - both of whom have extensive personal histories with Indian Residential schools. You can read Barry’s essay The Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Woke Watch Canada.
After you get through the essay, please consider reading From Truth Comes Reconciliation. Mark DeWolf and Rodney Clifton not only share their own research and unique personal perspectives, but they bring together a cast of expert contributors - Frances Widdowson, Gerry Bowler, Hymie Rubenstein, Brian Giesbrecht, Masha V. Krylova, Lea Meadows, Marshall Draper, Leighton Grey.
What is immediately striking to the reader who ventures into the waters recommended above, is that the flow of the tide is in the opposite direction imagined by the majority of Canadians. The generally accepted narrative around indigenous issues in Canada is like a forceful current rushing in one direction. But there are those who are swimming against the tide and increasing numbers on the shore taking notice. Even so, the narrative’s strong tidal pull and swirling water-logged confusion is like a turbulent rush through narrow rapids with many rocks and perilous falls. Just when it seems as though the dizzying spill may settle in a calm pool, a vortex pulls the surface down in a disorienting envelopment only to burst forth into yet more violent currents crashing wave against wave, with no end in sight.
The Aboriginal Industry - the informal collection of privileged indigenous leaders (neo-tribal elites) and both indigenous and non-indigenous activists, lawyers, academics, consultants, and administrators who see themselves as representing the interests of indigenous Canadians - have been controlling the narrative for too long. The other parties involved, the media and the government, also play key roles in ensuring the Aboriginal Industry’s narrative is the one Canadians accept. This deception has occurred for decades. Likewise, the government and media have both been complicit for decades. There is nothing to gain for a member of the media or for a Member of Parliament to speak the truth about the Aboriginal Industry. Because of this, as falsehoods persist for generations, the government and media continue to grossly fail both indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians.
It is up to independent truth-seekers to continue to go against the tide. In many ways, an extremely difficult task, however it is increasingly made easier by the growing numbers of Canadians who are making it clear that they are not buying the official line. Barry Kirkham is just one example of what I see all over social media and in the comment sections of news articles related to indigenous issues. There are many Canadians who are beginning to second guess much of the Aboriginal Industry deception. This is good. However, we have a long way to go, and a tough struggle ahead of us. In order for the truth of Canada’s Aboriginal Industry deception to be revealed, readers must continue to share this work on social media (and the work of all truth-seekers) and continue to discuss these issues with friends and families.
Barry Kirkham points out that when Indian Residential Schools were first conceived, the population of Canadian indigenous people was under 100,000. Today that number has exploded to over 1.6 million. Yet the Aboriginal Industry seeks to convince Canadians that the government’s policy was to eradicate the indigenous. The claim is that Indian Residential Schools formed part of a broader campaign of genocide.
There are a few methods of debunking this. One is to point out the many efforts taken by the Canadian government throughout history to help the indigenous. From preventing their starvation, to preventing their deaths by disease through vaccination, to building schools to educate them, to transferring billions of dollars in modern times meant to aid development or, disproportionately, compensate for past mistakes (and past wrongs) made while trying to help them. This line of reasoning alone is enough to debunk the genocide myth. If Canadians wanted the indigenous gone, they had many opportunities throughout history where they could have done nothing and let the indigenous suffer and most likely die off, but instead such outcomes were widely considered untenable, so time and time again the government came to the aid of the indigenous, preventing disaster on a mass scale.
A second method of debunking the Aboriginal Industry is to present facts that show how implausible the official narrative is. The example above dealing with indigenous population growth is good for context. If the indigenous were subject to genocidal ambitions for over a century, why did their population increase more than tenfold? Similarly, if a priest had murdered an indigenous student in the dead of night, why would he wake up six-year-old students to dig a clandestine grave? These types of assertions are constantly being made, but very few people ever question them. Why do the indigenous have this power? And why is questioning implausible claims or asking for substantiation, largely absent from the media discourse around indigenous issues?
When we go through the critical thinking exercise and logically assess these and other outlandish claims, a new narrative becomes increasingly clear. When we consider the growing quantity and the big picture of the claims of the Aboriginal Industry, how the level of implausibility is elucidated by pragmatic assessment, and how so many incentives that interest and satisfy the greed of the Aboriginal Industry are found virtually at every corner, a plausible picture of Aboriginal Industry corruption emerges.
A third method of examination involves the media’s amplification of the message of the Aboriginal Industry. This method is about looking closely at the climate of confusion caused by the use of mis-leading language deployed by the media, to provide fuzzy rationales wrapped in tragic circumstances, regret, and the weight of all such emotions known to shut down reason. A good example is a piece published by Global News on Oct 22 - Naming the unknown: How First Nations are identifying the children buried in unmarked graves.
In this piece, the macabre title and somber tone implies wrongdoing. But the investigation involves finding the locations of graves that were once known to be cemeteries. And while it is not known who is buried at these sites, it is possible that some may be former IRS students who died from tuberculosis. However, Global News journalist Krista Hessey, conflates the legitimate search for the sites of cemeteries lost to time, with the search for implied clandestine burials of murdered residential school students.
“By now, most Canadians are aware of the flurry of searches underway. They might even know how ground-penetrating radar technology works, if vaguely. These investigations seek to confirm with science what survivors of these institutions have long known: children suffered unnecessary deaths at the hands of state and church-run schools that neglected, starved, and abused them.” - Krista Hessey, Global News
Including the words “unnecessary deaths,” the above paragraph, within the context of a story about a search for unmarked graves, implies secret graves and murder. But we are not dealing with either and it would be so easy for Global News to make that clear. Instead, they only make clear their intention to virtue signal and pump out confused journalism supportive of the activist position.
The fact is there are no indigenous people looking for relatives who went missing from residential schools. To get around this the activists say things like - “Communities need to know where their children are. It’s a fundamental human right,” - this is manipulative and misleading. While it is recognized that indigenous communities have an interest in locating their lost cemeteries, to imply foul play, or suggest that some human right has been breached because no one took care of old cemeteries, is a stretch when it is clear that blame for poor stewardship of cemeteries lies with the communities concerned with them.
The Global News piece is a good example of how deeply invested in the official narrative the media is. I am not sure they are reachable. However, the public's growing distrust seems to be driving interest in the other side of the unmarked graves story. So it should. Perhaps this time the Aboriginal Industry has gone too far, making their theft of Canadians - both indigenous and non-indigenous - too obvious.
Regarding unmarked graves, hundreds of millions in tax dollars has been transferred for searches of the grounds of former residential schools. Brian Giesbrecht, Tom Flanagan and myself wrote an op-ed for True North - Unmarked Graves: Money or Justice? - which discusses the exorbitant sums set aside for these searches.
With Kamloops being the one exception, all other discoveries of potential unmarked graves have occurred in known former cemeteries. I wrote about unmarked graves in Kamloops in another True North op-ed - Historic septic dig casts doubt on Kamloops residential school burial site claims. The most plausible explanation for the ground penetrating radar readings of the apple orchard in Kamloops (which started the sensational and false unmarked graves story), is that the drainage tile from the school’s former septic system is what was detected. Not murdered children in clandestine graves.
I’ll have more to say on all of this soon, as will the many esteemed academics, researchers and journalists who have dedicated themselves to pursuing the truth regardless of the cost. In the meantime, please read Barry Kirkham’s great essay and Rodney Clifton & Mark DeWolf’s excellent book From Truth Comes Reconciliation to orient yourself toward a real process of truth. The objective kind.
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I have long believed that the Aboriginal Industry has been at play for decades. How long and how much has to be paid to right either real of perceived wrongs. The only people that ever seem to benefit from this are the chief and other aboriginal leaders in the elite echelons. The money rarely, if ever, goes to where its needed. The 'mass grave' story has been debunked many times, by many journalists, but yet it still persists. It is another addition to the mythology of the aboriginal woes. We must remember that the aboriginals were not a homogenous people when 'white' man first arrived on the scene. They were tribes, that had tribal wars. If you read Peter Newmans books, Caesars of the Wilderness and Company of Adventurers, you learn that the aboriginal leaders in those days very willingly entered into partnerships in the fur trade to their benefit. They weren't victimized or duped. Tribes warred against each other to get a bigger piece of the trading industry. The Iroquois virtually wiped out the Huron in trade wars. But you never hear about that when you talk about victims.
James, this is the first time I have read anything like this from the NCTR which contradicts what you say about no relatives looking for missing IRS children:
“Over the past two years, the number of survivors and families looking for information about a loved one who attended residential schools has “increased exponentially,” Frogner says. The NCTR has received so many requests through its survivor inquiry system that it had to hire three new full-time staff members to keep up — raising the total to 51 people doing this difficult detective work on a national level.” (https://globalnews.ca/news/9216470/residential-school-ungraved-graves-canada/)
It suggests that hundreds or more named family members are searching for their named loved ones “who never returned home” from their IRS doesn’t it?