Of the $321-million Ottawa is committing to residential school survivors and communities, $83 million will be added to an existing $27-million program to fund searches of burial sites and commemorate the children who died at residential schools
A rock with the message 'Every Child Matters' painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on July 15.The federal government is committing $321 million in new funding for programs to help Indigenous communities search burial sites at former residential schools and to support survivors and their communities.
She says the government will create a national advisory committee, made up of archeology, forensic, pathology, and mental health experts, to advise Indigenous communities and the government about work to find and identify the children. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says the government is setting aside $20 million to build a national monument in Ottawa that honours the survivors and all the children who were lost.
Cowessess First Nation earlier said that ground-penetrating radar detected 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School east of Regina, Sask., a few weeks after the finding of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children in Kamloops, B.C.
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