Exploring Theme: "Discoveries of unmarked graves"

St. Joseph’s Residential School operated between 1915 and 1969 Warning: This story discusses residential schools.  APTN News: A First Nation in northern Manitoba is dealing with the discovery of 187 underground anomalies that may be the remains of children who died while attending residential school. David Monias, chief of Cross Lake Band/Pimicikamak Cree Nation, made...

Property developer offers to set aside controversial area in south Winnipeg suburb of St. Norbert. The front gate of l’Asile Ritchot in the 1930s. Photo courtesy: Société historique de St-Boniface (SHSB) Tellier fonds.  Warning: This story contains distressing subject matter. APTN News: The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling for a halt on the potential development...

First People’s Law Report: Prince Albert Daily Herald– First Nations leaders are asking the federal and provincial governments for financial support to see a private campground expropriated which they suspect contains unmarked graves. But the owner of the campground says he believes the remains of children can be respected and memorialized without shutting his business...

No evidence of human remains found under church, but site has other anomalies: chief  WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: A Manitoba First Nation is weighing next steps in its search of a former residential school site after no human remains were found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement.  Minegoziibe Anishinabe,...

No remains found in excavation of church basement The Canada Press: MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE – No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.  Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social...

NationTalk: Provinces Failure to Protect Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites of former Indian Residential Schools leaves Children’s Remains At Risk and Affected Families without hope ‘Our relatives that are buried there are being treated as hostages,’ Chief Hubert Watt Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg, MB –The graves of former residential school children located on private property...

Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, learned of ground anomalies this summer CBC News · Posted: Oct 14, 2022 11:50 AM CT | Last Updated: October 14 WARNING: This story contains distressing details. RCMP are investigating the site of a former residential school in western Manitoba after ground-penetrating radar searches this summer revealed anomalies...

The unmarked graves of 51 children who died at the Brandon Indian Residential School are physically located on a Recreational Vehicle (RV) campsite that now owns the former school property. Grand Chief Arlen Dumas of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) wants the city of Brandon to protect the unmarked graves that are now part...