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2. Sask. First Nation announces hundreds of unmarked graves found at former residential school site

Wed Jun 23, 2021, 08:24 PM

Jun 2021

The Cowessess First Nation says it has discovered hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

A news release Wednesday from Cowessess and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN), which represents Saskatchewan's First Nations, did not give a specific number but said it will be the most found to date in Canada.

Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme and FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron are scheduled to hold a news conference Thursday morning to provide more details of the findings.

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Earlier this month Cowessess started using ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cowessess-graves-unmarked-residential-school-marieval-1.6077797

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They've found hundreds of un marked graves at a former indigenous [View all] applegrove Jun 2021 OP

The babies of Taum (Ireland) were starved to death Dawson Leery Jun 2021 #1

Oh man. What cruelty. I think it was TB at the residential schools. TB applegrove Jun 2021 #3

Sask. First Nation announces hundreds of unmarked graves found at former residential school site Spazito Jun 2021 #2

Have they determined the causes of death? Sneederbunk Jun 2021 #4

Authorities are not speculating. I should not be either but i heard someone applegrove Jun 2021 #5

Thank you. Sneederbunk Jun 2021 #6

I know. I don't want the families to be even more shocked or traumatized. I don't want applegrove Jun 2021 #7