This event took place on May 23, 2026, and concerns how we can get to the TRUTH about the Kamloops case. The only way we can determine if there are remains buried on site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is through EXCAVATIONS.
- Globe and Mail article with the latest report on excavations – May 23, 2026.
At the same time, a promotional post about the article staed that “radar technology located the remains of 215 former students”.
The article stated that “skeptics and denialists…insist that the community’s reluctance to provide more information – or conduct an archeological dig that would prove, once and for all, whether bodies lie beneath the site – is proof of a vast hoax that warrants a serious reassessment of the country’s broader push for reconciliation”. The article goes on to state that “hundreds of pages of governments [sic] documents obtained through access-to-information legislation, along with interviews with members of the First Nation, and a video recording of a seminar on the investigation all undermine those disparagements and give insight into the delays”.
So what are the 1) “documents”, 2) “interviews” and 3) “a video recording” that “undermine” the “disparagements” of “denialists”? The “documents” referred to are just the ones that were accessed by Blacklock’s Reporter, which are heavily redacted.
The documents that were discussing the “Activity Progress Reports” for “exhumation” (which, of course, first requires excavation) have been declared “confidential” and so we have no independent verification of what the government communicated to the Kamloops Indian Band.
The “interviews” are only with Garry Gottfriedson and Manny Jules, and these two individuals are related to Diena Jules and Ted Gottfriedson Jr. – the main figures responsible for the false claim about “The 215” made on May 27, 2021. Both Rosanne Casimir and Jeanette Jules declined to be interviewed.
Garry Gottfriedson mentioned a child “Kenny” hanging in a barn. This is most likely Adrian George who died accidentally while playing an “outlaw” in a game. George is buried in the Lytton Indian Cemetery. Therefore, the boy who was hanging is not evidence of there being remains of children in the old apple orchard.
The accidental death is discussed by Celia Haig-Brown in her 1986 MA Thesis on page 148.
The second person interviewed, Manny Jules, doesn’t provide any new information. He talks about “denialism” not wanting to “acknowledge or face the fact that attrocities happened to children”. He then states that the Kamloops Indian Band will “ultimately get to the point of excavation”, in spite of the decision of the 13 family heads to do excavations in 2021.
The article mentions a video of a presentation made by Jeanette Jules. This presentation reveals that “excavation is scheduled to proceed by 2027, pending consent from Tk’emlups and the roughly 120 communities throughout western Canada that sent children to the school”.
Jeanette Jules’ presentation occurs at 1:06:00-1:34:16 in the video.
The article also mentions the work of the GPR operator Sarah Beaulieu.
The downgrading of the number 215 to 200 was due to the fact that Beaulieu found out that excavations completed by the Simon Fraser archaeology department in 2002 constituted part of her survey area. These excavations had found no remains. The figure on the left comes from the SFU archaeologial report. The figure on the right was created by KamRes, on his website “Graves in the Apple Orchard”, which shows all the excavations undertaken on the site, and how they overlap with some of the “anomalies” Bealieu detected.
The archaeological report is about an excavation undertaken in 2002.
These excavations raise the following question: If Beaulieu was mistaken on the 15 anomalies previously excavated by the SFU archaeology department, why wouldn’t she also be mistaken on the other 200?
Unfortunately, our ability to ask questions about Beaulieu’s methodology has been hampered by a gag order that has been placed on the archaeology department by the lawyers of the Kamloops Indian Band.
