“Hundreds of First Nations children went to Marieval Indian Residential School and did not leave,” Chief Bobby Cameron said in a statement Thursday.
At least 600 unmarked graves were discovered at a former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada, Indigenous leaders said Thursday. The discovery comes less than a month after officials found the bodies of buried at another school in British Columbia. The hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at the former Marieval Residential School in Saskatchewan, Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme said in a news conference Thursday. Delorme said a search resulted in 751 “hits” but the radar used has a 10 to 15% error rate.
