What Kevin Annett has said about Canadian Indian residential school system

Annett cites Dr. Peter Bryce's government-commissioned 1909 inspection as evidence of mass deaths in the schools.

“He was commissioned by the Canadian government in 1909 to go and do a health inspection of all these Indian schools”

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Annett estimates 60,000 to 80,000 children died in the schools between 1891 and 1996.

“probably 60,000 to 80,000 children. Because we just calculated from the number of schools and the average death rate”

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Annett says every excavation his group conducted with elders' approval yielded human bones.

“Every time we dug up bones with the elders' approval, proved to be human”

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Annett characterizes skepticism about residential school deaths as a government-sponsored form of denialism.

“this is a whole movement that began sponsored by the Canadian government online to try to create our own domestic Holocaust denial”

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