A Saskatchewan First Nation says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.
The Cowessess First Nation says ground-penetrating radar recently discovered the graves at the Marieval Indian Residential School.
It says the number is the highest to date found in Canada.
B次元官网网址淲e always knew that there were graves here,B次元官网网址 Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme told a virtual news conference Thursday.
He showed a photo of a grassy field with coloured markers sticking out of the ground.
B次元官网网址淭he gravesite is there and it is real,B次元官网网址 he said.
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Last month, a First Nation in British Columbia announced ground-penetrating radar had found what are believed to be the remains of 215 children buried on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops. The school was once the largest in CanadaB次元官网网址檚 residential school network.
An estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis children attended the schools between the 1860s and 1996. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented stories from survivors and families and issued a report in 2015.
The report details mistreatment at the schools, including the emotional, physical and sexual abuse of children, and at least 4,100 deaths.
The Cowessess school, about 160 kilometres east of Regina, was built in 1899 by Roman Catholic missionaries. Delorme says it closed in 1996.
The National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419.
The Canadian Press
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