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Like other measures put in place across Canada, the inspiration for the funding was the discovery of 215 dead Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at a residential school site in Kamloops, B.C. last month. Since the discovery, First Nations leaders - including several chiefs in northern Manitoba - have called on different levels of government to help search other residential school sites for other unmarked graves. Manitoba has its own dark past with residential schools. A similar discovery to the one in Kamloops came this month in Brandon. A group led in part by the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation announced the discovery of 104 unmarked graves at the Brandon Indian Residential School, buried in three possible burial sites.
Reaction to the discovery of 215 children’s graves at a former residential school continues to roll in across Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Several northern First Nations are calling for full site investigations of northern schools.
In a statement on the official verified Twitter account of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church voiced sympathy for people affected by residential schools, but stopped short of offering an apology for the church’s role in the system and refrained from making commitments to help people affected. “I join the Canadian bishops and the whole Catholic Church in Canada in expressing my closeness to the Canadian people, who have been traumatised by shocking [sic] discovery of the remains of two hundred and fifteen children, pupils at the Kamloops Indian Residential School,” reads the statement. “These difficult times are a strong call for everyone to turn away from the colonial model and walk side by side in dialogue, mutual respect and recognition of the rights and cultural values of all the daughters and sons of Canada.”
The first Indigenous head of the Canadian Bar Association was a law school student in his mid-20s when he met his grandfather and learned he’d survived a “horrible” existence at a residential school in Saskatchewan. Brad Regehr said much of the trauma Jean-Marie Bear endured at the Sturgeon Landing Residential School starting at age five […]