In this brief overview, Frances Widdowson discusses the documents from Blacklock's that provide an overview of how the Canadian government discussion of the Kamloops Indian Residential Schools changed from referring to "possible [grave] sites" to "unmarked burial sites". This document is available here - https://wokeacademy.info/blacklocks-documents-on-funding-kamloops-indian-residential-school-excavations/.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:55 WokeAcademy.info site
6:34 Blacklock's document
7:01 Federal government "possible" burials language - Office of the Privy Council
9:29 Kamloops 9.3 million application for "excavations"
11:08 July 16, 2021 meeting about application
13:45 Communications about excavations application
16:18 Details about excavation "deliverables"
18:54 Aftermath of Trudeau Tofino Trip
19:48 Change to "215 remains" language
23:58 Lack of excavations and the documentary