Eighty-three areas of interest have been found using ground-penetrating radar during a search for possible unmarked graves at a former residential school in northern Saskatchewan. English River First Nation Chief Jenny Wolverine said in a news release that many of the sites located at the Beauval Indian Residential School were labelled as “child-sized” or “subadult.” Twelve were […]
Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, said a report last week from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves. Justice Minister David Lametti said he is open to such a solution. Kimberly Murray made the call in her newly released interim report, just over a […]
Survivors of a residential school that housed Métis children in Saskatchewan say they are seeking justice through a proposed class-action lawsuit against the federal and provincial governments. The Île-à-la-Crosse Residential Boarding School opened in the 1820s and operated for more than 100 years in the northern village. It burned down in the 1970s. “All we […]
The Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has discovered more than 2,000 areas of interest at the site of one of the longest-running residential schools in the country. One fragment of a jaw bone dating from the late 1800s, belonging to a child between four and six years old, was also found. […]
Canadian universities are working with the Sioux Valley Dakota First Nation to identify names of more than 100 children buried at a former residential school site near Brandon Manitoba. The bodies were first discovered in 2012, and only 78 can be identified through burial records. The groups involved in the search hope to use archival […]
The Saskatchewan New Democrats are pushing for Truth and Reconciliation for survivors of the former Île-à-la-Crosse and Timber Bay residential schools in northern Saskatchewan. On Wednesday, NDP Leader Ryan Meili sent a letter to Premier Scott Moe calling on the provincial government to apologize for and take ownership of its role in “the damage caused […]
