New graves are found near indigenous boarding school in Canada

An indigenous community in western Canada announced Thursday it had discovered possible unmarked graves and a child’s bone near a Canadian boarding school for indigenous minors.

For a year and a half, more than 1,300 children’s graves were found near these institutions in which indigenous minors were forcibly enrolled, which shocked the country and led to a national awareness of the dark colonial past of the North American country. .

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In Lebretin the province of saskatchewana radar allowed to discover around “2,000 zones” suspects that must be investigated, explained on Thursday the Star Blanket Cree community.

It is impossible for the moment to give a precise figure for the number of graves, because each “zone” does not necessarily correspond to an anonymous grave, he specified. Sheldon Poitraswho is conducting the investigations.

A bone fragment from a child’s jaw dating to about 125 years ago was also found, “material evidence of the presence of an unmarked grave“, I note.

“Our hearts are heavy today. It’s unimaginable”, declared Michael Starrhead of the community.

The search areas were identified thanks to indications from former students of the boarding school administered by the Catholic Church and open until 1998.

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The first Minister Justin Trudeau He described the announcement on Thursday as “hard” and admitted that “work is just beginning”, promising help from the government.

Between the end of the 19th century and the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous children were forcibly enrolled in 139 boarding schools in the country, separated from their families, their language and their culture. Thousands never came back.

A national commission of inquiry in 2015 described the system as “culture genocide”.

Source: Elcomercio

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