Communities share stories of searching unmarked graves

On a clear summer day in August, Rebecca Blake found herself standing in a cemetery outside Edmonton searching for the graves of Inuvialuit who died in the South during a tuberculosis epidemic.

Blake, who is Inuvialuit and an ordained deacon, was part of a group that included family members and the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation who travelled to the Edmonton area last summer to conduct ceremonies at the burial sites of 12 individuals who were located and identified through the Nanilavut Project. The project, which translates to “let’s find them” in Inuktut, began to search for and honour the lives of those who died in TB hospitals.

The event, which wrapped Wednesday, focused on promoting community well-being and addressing trauma in the search and recovery of missing children. The federal government plans to spend $320 million to help Indigenous communities heal from the ongoing effects of residential schools through projects, including searching former school sites, holding ceremonies or memorializing sites.“When I think about the history of the Indian Act and how Indigenous people weren’t allowed to hire lawyers, it’s almost like they took that provision of the Indian Act and breathed life back into it in their terms and conditions of their funding agreements.

Murray submitted a progress report to the federal government at the beginning of this month that outlined other common concerns she has heard. Murray called for governments to immediately waive their fees for communities to be able to access death, birth or any other certificates that the statistics offices hold.

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