the truth and reconciliation board acted like they were going to find the truth, but they seemed more interested in burying it and pretending like it never happened.

• Close, they promised to look into it with great fanfare and aplause... but then, found little, if any real mistreatment, and none that was exclusive to natives. That is, they were mistreated, but so was everyone else - and thus, not politically viable...

No one is saying the past didn't do bad shit - its that it wasn't exclusive to any 1 group.