The mourning outside a former indigenous school in Kamloops, Canada, where 215 graves were found in May. According to reports, hundreds of them have been found in Saskatchewan.Photo: Colberston/AFP/Getty Images
- More unmarked graves were found at the third Aboriginal boarding school in Canada, this time 183 graves.
- Ground penetrating radar mapping was used to locate the remains.
- This discovery is the latest of two similar discoveries. Last week and May, 751 and 215 unmarked tombs and remains were found, respectively.
Local tribes announced on Wednesday that another 182 unmarked graves were found in Canada’s third Aboriginal boarding school. There were two similar discoveries before, totaling hundreds of tombs.
The Lower Courtneys said in a statement that experts used ground-penetrating radar to map the remains of students believed to be 7-15 years old at the former St. Eugene’s Mission School near Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Immediately afterwards, the remains of 215 children were found in the unmarked graves of the former Kamloops Indian Boarding School in British Columbia in May, and 751 were found in another school in Marival, Saskatchewan last week. Unmarked grave.
The Lower Kootenay Band stated that a search of the Cranbrook site began last year. From 1912 to the early 1970s, the Catholic Church opened a school on the site on behalf of the federal government.
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It said that some graves were as shallow as three to four feet deep.
They are believed to be the remains of members of the Ktunaxa ethnic band, which includes Lower Koutney and other neighboring indigenous communities.
Until the 1990s, about 150,000 Indian, Inuit, and Metis young people were forcibly admitted to 139 boarding schools, where students were physically and sexually abused and deprived by principals and teachers. Understand their culture and language.
According to the conclusion of the investigation committee, Canada committed “cultural genocide” and more than 4,000 people died of disease and school neglect.
Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for the “harmful government policies” of indigenous assimilation.
