IIn Canada, dozens of anonymous graves were once again discovered on the original site of a boarding school for aboriginal children. The leader of the Penelakut tribe, Joan Brown, said that more than 160 graves were found on the former school grounds on Cooper Island. In a boarding school on the island west of Vancouver, Aboriginal children were educated from the end of the 19th century to 1975.
“It breaks my heart,” the Canadian Prime Minister said Justin Trudeau After the discovery was made on Tuesday. “We cannot bring those who died back to life, but we can and will expose the truth and continue to work with indigenous communities to combat discrimination and structural racism.”
In the past few weeks, more than 1,000 graves of unnamed Aboriginal children have been discovered in Canada near four different former boarding schools. These findings caused panic throughout the country.
In Canada, since 1874, approximately 150,000 local and biracial children have been separated from their families and cultures and placed in church houses in an attempt to force them to adapt to a white majority society. Many of them were abused or sexually abused at home. According to previous information, at least 4,000 of these children died, many of whom died of tuberculosis. The last of these schools did not close until the 1990s.
