Opaskwayak Cree Nation prepares to search 2 former residential school sites for unmarked graves cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Ben Waldman | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 16, 2021 Save to Read Later
William Hudson stood on the steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building last June, thinking about what he would say and who would be there to hear him say it.
William Hudson stood on the steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building last June, thinking about what he would say and who would be there to hear him say it.
He’d driven there in his pickup truck, along with his wife and box after box of supplies, arriving early to set up for a rally he never wanted to have, that every father prays will never be necessary. A few dozen people were sitting out on the grass, some holding signs with his daughter’s name Eishia spelled out in paint and in permanent marker.
George Gordon First Nation joins growing list of Sask groups searching for unmarked residential school graves cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Let s not become numb to this, when the next one comes. Let s be ready.
Author of the article: Alec Salloum
Publishing date: Jun 28, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read Solar lights and flags now mark the spots where 751 human remains were recently discovered in unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan on June 27, 2021. - Fires on Saturday destroyed two more Catholic churches in indigenous communities in western Canada, following grim discoveries at former church-run indigenous residential schools of nearly 1,000 unmarked graves. More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, the second such shock discovery in less than a month. Photo by GEOFF ROBINS /AFP via Getty Images