Exploring Theme: "Discoveries of unmarked graves"

NationTalk: Daily Guardian – Leaders of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation are planning to unearth a potential mass grave near a former residential school, while accusing the RCMP and medical examiner of negligence and racism. The announcement came after scientists at the International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague, Netherlands, concluded that a skull...

Warning: This story contains details that some people may find triggering. If you want to reach out, call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or connect to the online chat at Hope for Wellness online centre. APTN News: Leah Redcrow, executive director for the Acimowin Opaspiw Society or AOS, says both Saskatchewan’s Chief Medical Officer of Health...

Investigators say if excavation doesn’t happen soon, animals will continue to disturb the site WARNING: This story contains distressing details CBC Indigenous: A group investigating a suspected communal grave near the site where Blue Quills (Sacred Heart) residential school stood in Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta says it hopes to begin an excavation as early as this summer.  Leah Redcrow, CEO...

New findings support the accounts residential school survivors have been sharing for decades. Terri Cardinal recently completed a contract as the Indian residential school co-ordinator with Blue Quills University. This article was originally published in the Conversation. The Tyee: Over the past year I have worked at University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills, or UnBQ, as the Indian...

88 potential unmarked graves discovered at St. Bruno’s residential school but more work to be done to confirm It was an emotional weekend for residential school survivors as over 1,000 people joined in from across Treaty 8 at the St. Bruno’s Indian Residential School Gathering as local chiefs and the University of Alberta released a...

CBC: A First Nation in Alberta says new archival work has helped explain numerous discoveries of human remains that it now believes are the unmarked graves of residential school students. Saddle Lake Cree Nation revealed on Tuesday that since 2004, there have been numerous discoveries of partial remains that were accidentally excavated while new graves were being dug...

Globe and Mail – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced on Tuesday the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s Indian Residential School (1894-1961), another in a growing number of school burial sites. Kapawe’no First Nation, located near High Prairie, about 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, worked...

Grouard IRS (AKA – St. Bernard’s IRS – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s IRS...