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Western Canadians have found 182 unmarked graves near a former school for Indian children, recently discovered in recent weeks.

The Lower Kootenay Band said Wednesday that experts are using a landmark to locate what they believe to be the remains of children between the ages of 7 and 15 at St Eugene’s Mission School near Cranbrook, British Columbia.

The organization, which Indian children were forced to attend in an attempt to bring them to Canada, is run by the Catholic Church and is run from 1890 to 1970, according to to the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Center.

A search of the site began last year, the group said in a statement, and the children believe they are members of the Ktunaxa Nation, which includes Lower Kootenay and surrounding areas.

“You can’t be as well prepared as this,” said Chief Jason Louie of the Lower Kootenay Band, as reports CBC News Writer.

Hundreds of unidentified graves have been unearthed in at least three other Canadian schools in recent weeks, bringing in rural people who have known for years the corporations’ deaths to grieve and suffer.

Canadian residential schools have been in operation since the late 19th and early 1990s. This was part of a larger colonial operation aimed at seizing Indian territories and forcing the admission of First Nation, Metis and Inuit children. Many churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, had at least 139 schools throughout Canada, and thousands of Indian children are believed to have died in the institutions.

At the end of last month, 215 Remnants of natural children was found at Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC, where 751 unidentified graves were he found at the Indianval Resident School in Saskatchewan last week.

Chief Jennifer Bone of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, in central Manitoba, too He said this month that locals believe 104 graves could be found in three graves at the Brandon Residential School site.

These findings have led to a growing appeal from the federal government and the Catholic Church.

Traditional leaders are wants an apology from Pope Francis and for the church to publish all of its organizational documents. They have also demanded that sufficient funds be made available to fund school fees, to prosecute anyone found guilty, careful examination establishment.

182 other unmarked graves.
It is time for regular and independent research to find evidence of this.
It is time for the Feds and the Church to make the documents.
Time to put the essentials on the table to make sure all the places are thoroughly inspected.

– Charlie Angus NDP (@CharlieAngusNDP) June 30, 2021

Canadian MP Charlie Angus, a member of the opposition New Democratic Party, said Wednesday that “it is time for a concerted and independent inquiry into the allegations.”

In the meantime, the pain of the new discovery is being felt by the Canadian Indians.

“My whole family went there,” Earl Einarson, a member of the Ktunaxa First Nation, shipped on Twitter about a boarding school near Cranbrook. “The shadow of the place still hurts our family. And now in the same shadow is sleeping 182 who did not survive in the darkness. ”

According to the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Center, “Agent Indian wrote in 1935 that, due to malnutrition, overwork, and illness, they should force parents to send their children” to St Eugene Ministry School.

“Even though the headmaster has changed, the number of students in the school and their flight has been difficult. There was also the spread of influenza, mumps, rubella, measles, and tuberculosis. ” He said.

Most of the locals have it asked for celebrations on Canada Day – a national holiday on July 1 – will be canceled due to the findings of the cemetery.

“While many of our children who have not returned from Residential Schools are present, I do not believe this is the time to celebrate Canada,” said Walter Naveau, executive director of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), which represents many First Nations in northern Ontario.

“I hear people say that Canada is the largest country, but many choose not to accept the true history of the country and the Indigenous People and the legacy that still exists today,” Naveau said Wednesday.

“Canada has gone through the difficult days of Dormitory Schools, but our people have not changed. Many are grieving, and many will not grieve until they know what happened to their loved ones – the children who were taken home. ”