Is this the beginning of Canada’s reckoning over Indigenous relations? by Courtney Theriault and Joey Chini Posted Jun 25, 2021 9:22 am PDT Last Updated Jun 25, 2021 at 8:28 am PDT CALGARY (660 NEWS) — The ongoing discovery of unmarked graves near residential schools has sparked a reckoning for Canada, but Indigenous leaders say this knowledge is not new. Niigan Sinclair is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, and he says the federal government was invited to investigate residential schools in the past and they refused to do so at the time. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was denied $1.5m in federal funding back in 2009 to research evidence of unmarked graves. But Indigenous communities didn’t let that setback dictate their story.