Do you remember this story? Back in 2021 it was a huge story in Canada which quickly became international news. The NY Times covered it in a story headlined ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada.“
For decades, most Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and forced into boarding schools. A large number never returned home, their families given only vague explanations, or none at all.
Now an Indigenous community in British Columbia says it has found evidence of what happened to some of its missing children: a mass grave containing the remains of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school.
Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said on Friday that ground-penetrating radar had discovered the remains near the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which operated from 1890…
