Star Blanket Cree Nation is bracing to find human remains as the search begins for unmarked graves near another former residential school, one which survivors have told stories about for years.
TORONTO -- A Saskatchewan First Nation is bracing to find human remains as the search begins for unmarked graves near another former residential school, one which survivors have told stories about for years.
Starr explained that elders will be present at the start of the search, as well as contractors and members of the community, and that the grounds will be blessed before the ground-penetrating radar begins. “I've seen a space where it was covered up, and right now its sunken in where we've been told [residential school workers were] probably taking our children there to do the unthinkable things that we've come to understand that they did,” Starr said.
“When I was walking down this path, I fell in this hole about three feet deep and that was the flower bed,” Gordon said. “I saw this priest coming by and he had something draped over his shoulder, carrying something, and they went to that hole and they dumped it in there.” “I was always alone because my other siblings were always in a different part of the school,” she said. “Feeling segregated from my family members -- being the youngest one in my family -- I needed them.”
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