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April 11, 2024
Ahousaht First Nation releases findings from search for missing residential school children
Likely and potential unmarked grave locations found at schools Jackie McKay · CBC · WARNING: This story contains distressing details CBC Indigenous: Posted: Apr 10, 2024 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago ʕaaḥuusʔath (Ahousaht) First Nation released the findings from the first phase of its search for missing children who attended two residential schools in...
March 7, 2024
Knowledge event held to share lessons learned in search for unmarked graves at residential schools
“I want to share this with our allies: As well intentioned as you are, it’s important that you work in delicate way on this and know your lane. Don’t become experts of our misery.” —Eugene Arcand Dr. Kisha Supernant, a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Missing Children and Unmarked Graves in relation...
October 30, 2023
Cadaver dogs searching for unmarked graves at former Kenora residential school site uncover 22 ‘alerts’
The alerts in addition to 171 plausible burial sites detected at former St. Mary’s site in January Warning: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation in northwestern Ontario says cadaver dogs conducting ground searches of a former residential school site have found 22 “alerts” indicating the underground presence of historical human remains....
October 14, 2023
After a century in an unnamed grave, an Inuk girl finally gets her name back
After Sara Abraha Uvloriak’s story was published, church held a ceremony for a new gravestone CBC News: More than a century after her death, a young Labrador Inuk girl buried in a cemetery in London’s Chelsea neighbourhood has received a ceremony and a new gravestone. And unlike her first gravestone, this one is engraved with her name: Sara Abraha Uvloriak....
September 29, 2023
‘I grieve for the ones that didn’t come home’: St. Anne’s survivor helping to search for unmarked graves
There are plans to search the old St. Anne’s property with ground-penetrating radar this winter WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC Indigenous: Rick Wabano was sitting in his Grade 2 classroom in Moosonee when a priest came in, took him home to pack a bag and then brought him down to the float plane dock....
September 26, 2023
Deciding to dig
Pine Creek First Nation was among the first in Canada to excavate a site with potential unmarked graves — a journey that may provide tough lessons for others weighing the same step. WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: They emerge from the bowels of an old stone church, two figures clad in white...
September 22, 2023
B.C. First Nation research finds 158 child deaths at four facilities
MISSION, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS The Globe and Mail: The Canadian Press – An investigation into unmarked graves and missing children by British Columbia’s Sto:lo Nation has revealed at least 158 deaths, most of them at a hospital. But representatives from the Sto:lo Nation Chiefs’ Council and Sto:l Research and Resource Management Centre said Thursday...
August 29, 2023
93 possible unmarked graves discovered at former Beauval residential school
‘Schools should come with playgrounds, not graveyards,’ says Saskatchewan chief. Chief Wolverine and Dawn McIntyre speak to media about potential unmarked graves Warning: This story contains information that may be distressing to residential school survivors. APTN News: English River First Nation in Saskatchewan announced Tuesday it has discovered nearly 100 potential unmarked graves at the...
August 10, 2023
English River First Nation finds potential unmarked graves in, around school cemetery
12 radar findings appear to be consistent with burial of infants, First Nation says WARNING: This article includes distressing details. CBC News: A Saskatchewan First Nation has found what it believes to be dozens of graves in its initial findings from a radar search in and around the cemetery at a former residential school. English River...
August 7, 2023
Sask.-based lawyer welcomes Guatemalan group’s offer to support search for unmarked graves
Group offers to train Indigenous communities on how to excavate graves and recover remains WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: The Canadian Press – A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples looking to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools in Canada. Fredy Peccerelli,...
July 21, 2023
Anishinabe nation in Manitoba prepares to excavate 14 anomalies
Minegoziibe Anishinabe suspects there may be unmarked graves underneath Catholic church and site of former residential school A First Nation plans to excavate the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in northwestern Manitoba. Photo courtesy Justin Richard Warning: This story contains details about child abuse and residential schools that may be...
April 21, 2023
‘Mohawk Mothers’ reach agreement with McGill to search hospital grounds for unmarked grave
APTN: A group of six women from Kahnawà:ke calling themselves the Mohawk Mothers, or Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera, reached an agreement with McGill University and Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI) April 20 to find out if there are unmarked graves on the campus. Kwetiio, one of the Kahnistensera, said the agreement is “for the archeology. It’s not for either side. It’s not for people fighting amongst...
April 20, 2023
shíshálh Nation says 40 unmarked graves believed found at residential school site, more are expected
St. Augustine’s Residential School in Sechelt, B.C., operated from 1904 to 1975 CBC News: The shíshálh Nation says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the former St. Augustine’s Residential School. A statement from the nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says it listened...
April 19, 2023
Search for unmarked graves at Blue Quills finds 19 sites that could be unmarked plots
Ground-penetrating radar search guided by survivor testimonies WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: A search for unmarked graves at the former Blue Quills Residential School in eastern Alberta found 19 sites that contained anomalies consistent with burial plots. The property, located about 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, was once a Roman Catholic-run institution....
March 16, 2023
New Survivors Secretariat logo features the apples Mohawk Institute students weren’t allowed to eat
Secretariat hopes that more survivors’ stories will help inform their investigation CBC News: The Survivors’ Secretariat in Six Nations, Ont., has started a new campaign to introduce a logo and increase its social media presence. The Secretariat was established in 2021 to support survivors of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s longest running residential school. The former residential school in...
February 28, 2023
‘They’re the Ones That are Warriors’
Guided by survivors’ memories, the Tseshaht First Nation is uncovering horrific truths about Alberni Indian Residential School. [Editor’s note: This story discusses deaths of children in Indian residential schools. It may be triggering to some readers.] HELP IS AVAILABLE If you need support, call the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at 1-800-721-0066 or 1-866-925-4419 for...
February 21, 2023
Suspected grave sites, children’s deaths found in probe of B.C. residential school
Ground-penetrating radar has detected 17 suspected grave sites around the former Alberni Indian Residential School. The Toronto Star: PORT ALBERNI, B.C. – A Vancouver Island First Nation has announced the detection of 17 suspected unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, in an emotional event that combined science and ceremony on Tuesday. ...
February 18, 2023
NDP MP calls for hate speech law to combat residential school ‘denialism’
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller interested in reviewing proposed bill WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Some Indigenous academics and activists say they’ve become the targets of a growing backlash against reports of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites — and they want Parliament to do something about it. They...
January 25, 2023
66 more potential burial sites discovered at former B.C. residential school
Williams Lake First Nations has revealed the results of phase 2 of its search WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The lead investigator for a B.C. First Nations has announced its ongoing probe has revealed at least 28 children died on the grounds of a former residential school and identified 66 more potential burial sites. Whitney Spearing,...
January 24, 2023
Tainted milk led to deaths of Alberta residential school children, group says
First Nation group intends to excavate what it believes to be a mass grave WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. CBC News: A new report suggests tainted, unpasteurized milk was responsible for the deaths of many First Nations children at an Alberta residential school. The conclusion comes from a preliminary report...
January 17, 2023
‘A tragic first for Ontario’: 171 plausible burials found at Kenora residential school site
A survivors group is investigating the site of the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, which operated under different names from 1897 to 1972. Article was updated 10 hrs ago Toronto Star: A survivors group that has been investigating the site of the former St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont., says ground-penetrating radar has...
January 12, 2023
Ground search at Sask. First Nation gets 2,000 ‘hits,’ more work required to determine which are graves
Star Blanket Cree Nation will now begin core sampling and DNA tests Warning: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Ground penetrating radar searches at the site of the former Lebret Indian Industrial School found more than 2,000 “hits” over the past year, the man leading the search for Star Blanket Cree Nation announced Thursday. The...
January 12, 2023
Radar search finds more than 2,000 anomalies at Saskatchewan residential school site
More work needs to be done to determine what exactly the ground-penetrating radar has found at the former Lebret Indian Industrial School site. Toronto Star: A Saskatchewan First Nation says a ground-penetrating radar search at a former residential school has revealed more than 2,000 anomalies, while a physical search also found what is believed to...
March 1, 2022
Grouard IRS (St. Bernard’s IRS)
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...
March 1, 2022
St. Bernard’s IRS (Grouard Mission)
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...
February 15, 2022
Fort Pelly IRS and St. Philip’s IRS
Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said the Catholic Church, and others who ran the school, must...
February 15, 2022
Keeseekoose First Nation
Fort Pelly Residential School and St. Philip’s Residential School Feb. 15, 2022: Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations...
January 26, 2022
St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School
William Lake First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Willie Sellars of the William Lake First Nation delivered preliminary results from the first phase of an investigation into St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School. 93 potential human burials have been found in an area near a historic cemetery at the school site. Current data suggest that 50...
September 30, 2021
Marievale Indian Residential School
Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marievale Indian Residential School in southeastern Saskatchewan “which operated from 1898 until 1997, and was run by the Catholic Church for most of its history”. “We will find more bodies...
July 13, 2021
Kuper Island Indian Residential School
Penelakut First Nation Toronto Star – Penelakut Tribe Chief Joan Brown “has told surrounding First Nations that it has found the unmarked graves of 160 or more people on the grounds of the former residential school”. Kuper Island School on Penelakut Island was operated by the Catholic Church until 1969. Outbreaks of deadly disease were...
June 30, 2021
St. Eugene Mission School
Ktunaxa Nation, community of Aq’am Toronto Star – Chief Jason Louie of The Lower Kootenay Band announced that they had discovered “182 sets of human remains in unmarked graves…flagged near the location of a former residential school – St. Eugene Mission School – in Cranbrook, B.C…from the member bands of Ktunaxa nation, and neighbouring First...
June 26, 2021
Marievale Indian Residential School
Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Cadmus Delorme said the First Nation has since identified about 300 unmarked graves. Not all were believed to belong to children. Catholic Church parishioners are thought to have been buried there, as well as members of neighbouring communities. The First Nation worked with historical records from the Roman...
June 1, 2021
Muskowekwan Indian Residential School
CTV News – In 2018 and 2019, the First Nation worked with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta to use ground-penetrating radar to find unmarked or unidentified graves of children who attended the school. Through that process, along with water line construction done in the 1990’s, the First Nation has identified at...
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