More than 1,800 confirmed or suspected unmarked graves have been identified so far at former residential school sites in Canada, much of them discovered this year.
More than 1,800 confirmed or suspected unmarked graves have been identified so far at former residential school sites in Canada, much of them discovered this year.
More unmarked graves discovered in Canada at a former indigenous residential school Share Updated: 9:20 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021 Paula Newton, CNN Share Updated: 9:20 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021
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Show Transcript We started our radar penetrating Research on June 2021. As of yesterday we have hit 751 unmarked graves. This is not a mass grave site. These are unmarked graves of the 751 hits. The machine has a 10-15% error percentage. So we will only go by the hits that we have of 751. But we do know there s at least 600. The pope needs to apologize. Mhm. For what has happened to the mayor of L. A. Residential school. Yes. Impact on cows. First nation survivors and descendants. An apology Is one stage of many in the healing journey. This was a crime against humanity. An assault on a first on first Nation people. We are proud people. The only crime we ever committed as Children was being born indigenous. We are seeing the results of the genocide
More Than 160 Unmarked Graves Found Near Indigenous Canadian School
07/13/21 AT 8:44 PM
The western Canadian Penelakut Tribe says it has found more than 160 unmarked graves near the site of a former indigenous boarding school, Canada s fourth discovery of this kind in recent weeks.
In the last month, discoveries of more than 1,000 graves prompted a nationwide reckoning over Canada s painful past and its policies of forced assimilation toward indigenous communities. We are at another point in time where we must face the trauma because of these acts of genocide, said Penelakut Tribe Chief Joan Brown in a July 8 statement confirming 160+ undocumented and unmarked graves newly-uncovered on the British Columbia reservation.