Boy...it sure looks like some Senator is upset at being publicly embarrassed and is lashing out, but seeing as how her "multitudes of natives who loved residential schools" don't exist, I can only think that her now "silent majority" is equally non-existent.  

The only support I see for her comes from the same handful of virulent anti-Native racists that regularly comment on stories like this.  Other settlers -what seem like the vast majority- are embarrassed by her. (and rightly so).