Ground-penetrating radar confirms Indigenous oral histories of schools. [fact]
But Ottawa dragged its feet. It was in this context that some First Nations undertook their own searches, which proceeded even under the eerie quiet of Covid isolation. And now, with the aid of ground-penetrating radar, the soil was giving up its secrets, confirming with Western science the bitter truths that survivors and their descendants already knew. … "Apocalypse," in its original Greek, means an uncovering, a disclosing, a revelation. This was that.
XREF: Connects to the broader residential school survivor literature and TRC findings.
DEFINE: Etymology of 'apocalypse' as revelation, linking the term's meaning to uncovering buried truths.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 843