Canada: hundreds more unmarked graves found at former Indigenous school
First Nation in southern Saskatchewan says discovery is ‘most significantly substantial’ find yet in Canada
Associated Press
Wed 23 Jun 2021 23.14 EDT
Tributes outside a former Indigenous school in Kamloops, Canada, where 215 graves were found in May. Hundreds more have reportedly been found in Saskatchewan. Photograph: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images
Associated Press
Wed 23 Jun 2021 23.14 EDT
A First Nation in southern Saskatchewan has discovered hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of another former residential school for Indigenous children.
A statement from the Cowessess First Nation and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations, which represents Saskatchewan’s First Nations, said on Wednesday that “the number of unmarked graves will be the most significantly substantial to date in Canada.”
Last month the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.
Cowessess chief, Cadmus Delorme, and chief Bobby Cameron of the federation planned to hold a news conference on Thursday to provide more details about the new find at the Marieval Indian residential school. It operated from 1899 to 1997 where Cowessess is now located, about 87 miles east of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.
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Hundreds of bodies reported found in unmarked graves at former Saskatchewan residential school
The total number of graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School is expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops
Author of the article:Christopher Nardi
Publishing date:Jun 23, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read
Marieval Indian Residential School was founded and operated by the Roman Catholic Church beginning in 1899 until the federal government took over in 1969. The Cowessess First Nation took control in 1987 until it was closed in 1997. PHOTO BY SOCIETE HISTORIQUE DE SAINT-BONIFACE REFERENCE NO. SHSB 1458
OTTAWA – A Saskatchewan First Nation says it has made the “horrific and shocking discovery” of hundreds of unmarked graves — many believed to be children — near a former residential school, with a total expected to be over three times higher than the 215 discovered recently in Kamloops, B.C., according to a source briefed on the file.
Leaders of the Cowessess First Nation, a roughly two hour drive east of Regina, are expected to reveal details of the macabre discovery near what was once the Marieval Indian Residential School during a press conference Thursday morning, as well as the latest count of newly-identified remains.
“The number of unmarked graves will be the most significantly substantial to date in Canada,” says an advisory published Wednesday evening by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.
The remains are in unmarked graves in a communal gravesite first used in 1885 but eventually taken over by the Marieval Indian Residential School, founded and operated by the Roman Catholic Church beginning in 1899 on what was then the Marieval Reserve.
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A classroom in Marieval Indian Residential School. PHOTO BY SOCIETE HISTORIQUE DE SAINT-BONIFACE, REFERENCE NO. SHSB 1441
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A ceremony in early June held in honor of the 215 residential schoolchildren whose remains were discovered buried near a facility in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Chad Hipolito/Canadian Press/AP)
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Amanda Coletta
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Michael E. Miller
June 24, 2021 at 10:15 a.m. CDT
TORONTO — A First Nation in Canada says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in the prairie province of Saskatchewan, at least the second such discovery here in less than a month as the country again confronts one of the darkest chapters of its history.
The Cowessess First Nation made the “horrific and shocking discovery” at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in the southeastern part of the province, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.
The announcement comes less than a month after the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation said a ground-penetrating radar specialist had uncovered evidence of unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
In the days following the announcement that graves had been discovered at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Indigenous leaders and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there probably would be more discoveries as other such sites were searched.
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