When it released its report in 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on the government to work with landowners and Indigenous groups to try and locate potential burial sites and graves on former residential school property.Article content
In 2019, the Liberals provided $33.8 million, spread over three years, to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to create a register of the children who died in schools. It has so far documented more than 4,100 cases, but the focus of the effort was using admission records, death certificates and other documentation to build the list of students who died in the schools.Article content
Bellegarde said those calls to action have not been implemented and the government must do more. He said the burial sites were known in the Indigenous community and too often dismissed, but the Kamloops site showed the truth.Article content The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe issued a joint call for the federal government to fund investigations at the 20 residential school sites in that province.“There are thousands of families across this country and in our Treaty territories that have been waiting for their children to come home. These children deserve the respect and dignity of proper burials,” he said in a statement.
Oh just like they got clean drinking water to all First Nation reserves?
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.