\n An Indigenous community in Canada said Tuesday it has identified 169 \"potential\" unmarked graves at a former residential school site, adding to a growing tally of such gruesome discoveries that first rocked the country last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Kapawe'no First Nation in northern Alberta province posted on its website the results of a six-day survey, using ground-penetrating radar, of the Grouard Mission site, about 370 kilometers northwest of Edmonton.\n<\/p>\n
\n The school, also known as the St. Bernard Mission School, was opened by the Catholic Church in 1894 and ran until 1961.\n<\/p>\n
\n The University of Alberta's Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology led the search.\n<\/p>\n
\n In a report it said its findings are \"the beginning of a long journey to find answers to what happened to the children who never came home from the residential school at St. Bernard's Mission.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n \"There remains a lack of justice and accountability for what happened,\" it said. \"There is more work to be done to find those answers.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n Numerous investigations into former residential schools are underway across the country, with more than 4,000 children believed to be missing, according to authorities.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Kapawe'no First Nation discovery brings the total number of unmarked graves found so far to more than 1,500.\n<\/p>\n
\n In total, about 150,000 Indigenous children were enrolled from the late 1800s to the 1990s in 139 residential schools across Canada, spending months or years isolated from their families, language and culture.\n<\/p>\n
\n Many were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers, and thousands are believed to have died of disease, malnutrition or neglect.\n<\/p>\n
\n A truth and reconciliation commission concluded in 2015 the failed government policy amounted to \"cultural genocide.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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