A group of residential-school survivors is moving ahead with plans to use ground-penetrating radar at five former residential school sites on Vancouver Island, saying they can’t wait for . . .
A group of residential-school survivors is moving ahead with plans to use ground-penetrating radar at five former residential school sites on Vancouver Island, saying they can’t wait for . . .
Regional Chief puts perspective on former residential school tragedy
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“This confirms a lot of the stories made by survivors.”
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Report documented the deaths of at least 32-hundred children at these facilities.
Teegee told
Vista Radio several First Nations leaders are now calling on governments to help search other former sites, to see if more bodies can be found.
“I know other first nations are looking for their children in Mi’kmaq territory in Nova Scotia and also to there has been a push from Saskatchewan with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. This is an important step because searching other schools are to look for those well over four thousand missing children, which was the conservative number identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and also within their recommendations to look at all the records to find these children.”