Canadian First Nations face financial, emotional strain of ground search efforts
CTV
For three months a committee on the George Gordon First Nation in southern Saskatchewan has been working to find any spots where unmarked graves could be from Gordon’s Indian Residential School.
In May the discovery of 215 unmarked graves found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School sent shockwaves through Canada.
A month later, Cowessess First Nation located 751 unmarked gravesites on the grounds of a former residential school.
Since then more Indigenous communities across the country have begun the process for their own searches, but for some it’s proving to be quite a challenge.
“Triangulation is the process that we go through in dealing with Indigenous Services Canada’s records, the church records and our local historical records,” Brad Spence, co-chair of the George Gordon First Nation Residential School Committee, told CTV News
