Iran Press/ America: Last year, similar findings were made at several other boarding schools across Canada, and more than 1,300 graves have been discovered since May 2021.
In total, some 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were enrolled from the late 1800s to the 1990s in these residential schools, set up to forcibly assimilate the country's Indigenous peoples. Spending months or years isolated from their families, many students were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers who stripped them of their culture and language.se schools from the late 1800s to the 1990s. These schools were set up to forcibly assimilate the country's Indigenous people.
A truth and reconciliation commission documented abuses at the schools and the deaths of more than 4,000 students, mostly from malnutrition, disease and suicide – in a 2015 report calling it "cultural genocide".
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Yesterday, Indigenous people in Canada's Saskatchewan province announced that 54 unmarked graves have been found at two former residential schools, adding to the growing number of unmarked burials that shocked the country last year.
Ted Quewezance, who is leading the Keeseekoose First Nation's search for graves using ground-penetrating radar near Fort Pelly and St Philip's residential schools, disclosed the findings at a press conference, AFP reported.
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