What is Missing from the Missing Children’s Story at Indian Residential Schools? - By Rodney A. Clifton

Clifton Canadians were horrified when they heard that 215 unmarked graves of murdered and missing Indigenous students had been discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School (IRS) in the Spring of 2021.1 Since that announcement, hundreds, if not thousands, of news reports have been published about murdered Indigenous children and mass, unmarked graves discovered in the yards o. [...] Fifth, in residential schools on large reserves in Southern Canada, the Siksika and Kainai First Nations, for example, where most of the children lived relatively close to the schools, many of the children went home on weekends and during school holidays. [...] Sixth, why did the government officials, church leaders, journalists, and citizens, who read the TRC Report, not ask about the disposition of school records? Specifically, why didn’t Indian Affairs employees notice that the records for some students were not being sent to them? One wonders if Indian Affairs continued to pay school fees and room and board for students who had stopped attending scho. [...] If these children had been murdered, would the parents still collect the allowance and disbursement cheques? If payments were sent to these families, wouldn’t the Canadian Revenue Agency and Indian Affairs have asked for explanations and reimbursement? Conclusion The TRC spent six years and $60 million studying Indian Residential Schools, and authoring a 3,500-page report, but it did not address t. [...] The Prime Minister had the Canadian flag lowered on federal buildings for months in mourning for these children,10 and the federal government made over $130 million available for exhuming the bodies of IRS children.11 But up to the end of October 2023, no remains of Indigenous school children have been exhumed from any school yard that was not also a cemetery.12 Readers will be pleased to learn th.