Canada pressured to find all unmarked Indigenous graves
The remains of 215 children were found last month buried in unmarked graves at a former residential school, one of more than 150 institutions in a defunct system that for well over a century forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families to assimilate them into Canadian society.
The graves, which were discovered with ground-penetrating radar last month, are believed to be undocumented, said Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, who announced the discovery May 27. Searchers acted on a “knowing in our community” to look for the unmarked graves, she said.
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The commission identified more than 4,100 children who died while in residential schools. The true number of victims may never be known because of incomplete or missing records.
Read More: NBC, 3 June 2021