Posted: Jun 28, 2021 2:41 PM CT | Last Updated: June 29
Community advocate Prairie Crowe plans to leave hundreds of backpacks at the Saskatchewan Legislature on Canada Day, a memorial to those in the unmarked graves recently found at the former site of the Marieval Indian Residential School.(Submitted by Prairie Crowe)
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Organizer Prairie Crowe hopes that a display of 751 backpacks at the Saskatchewan Legislature on Canada Day will provide the province with a stark illustration of the unmarked graves recently found at the former Marieval Indian Residential School. I think that number, 751, just sticks with a lot of people, she told CBC News on Monday.