The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has a record of 52 children’s deaths at the school.
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.”
Additional sites identified by survivors are to be searched with ground-penetrating radar over the next year. Survivors told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which looked into the legacy of residential schools in Canada, about physical and sexual abuse, humiliation and how their language was restricted.
Analyzing the records is expected to take up to three years and the First Nation said it’s hoped the documents will help identify children linked to the possible graves and the First Nations they belong to.
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