An Indigenous community in western Canada said it found hundreds of unmarked graves near a former boarding school less than a month after a similar discovery shocked the country and reignited a nationwide discussion about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people.
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, issued a statement that said it would provide more details about the discovery during a Thursday press conference alongside the Cowessess First Nation, which is located about a hundred miles east of Regina. It didn’t specify how many graves had been found but called the discovery “the most significantly substantial” so far in the country.
The announcement comes several weeks after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation near Kamloops, British Columbia, said it had discovered the remains of 215 children in the area of a former government-funded boarding school….