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Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves discovered at former residential school site in Saskatchewan
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Hundreds of unmarked graves discovered at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan/ credit: Screengrab from YouTube

Canada: Hundreds of unmarked graves discovered at former residential school site in Saskatchewan

| @indiablooms | 24 Jun 2021, 11:40 pm

Saskatchewan/IBNS: A Canadian indigenous group has reported the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan province.

The Marieval Indian Residential School operated from 1899 to 1997 in Cowessess, about 140 kilometers east of Regina.

The 1970s school's cemetery from the Catholic Church was taken over by the First Nation.

Ground-penetrating radar had started to be used by Cowessess earlier this month to locate unmarked graves.

According to the predictions of Indigenous leaders and archaeologists, there will be more such discoveries with the support of the federal and provincial governments along with private corporations for First Nations to deploy ground-penetrating radar technology to search for gravesites.

The First Nation has been working with experts, knowledge keepers, and survivors who attended the school to identify unmarked graves at the site of the institution’s cemetery.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett’s office declined to issue a statement until the community has had a chance to address the public.

(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)

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