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-- The Cowessess First Nation, an indigenous group in Saskatchewan, on Thursday announced a preliminary discovery of 751 unmarked graves near a former indigenous residential school, less than a month after a similar discovery rocked the country and the world.   -- Survivors of Canada's indigenous residential schools said the two findings were just the tip of the iceberg, renewing their feelings of grief and trauma.   --An estimated 150,000 indigenous children across Canada were reportedly removed from their homes and forced to attend residential schools between the 1890s and as recently as ...

2021-06-28 04:34:45 GMT2021-06-28 12:34:45(Beijing Time) Xinhua English 　　Children's shoes and toys are placed on the staircase outside Vancouver Art Gallery during a memorial event for the 215 children whose remains have been found buried at a former Kamloops residential school, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 30, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Soong/Xinhua) OTTAWA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Though touting itself a "model for human rights," Canada was confronting its ugly history of encroaching upon the human rights of the indigenous people, as hundreds of unmarked graves were d...