Williams Lake First Nation identifies 93 potential burial sites at former residential school

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Many of the children who attended the school are unaccounted for and survivors’ accounts tell of long history of sexual and physical abuse at the facility, says Kukpi7 (Chief) Willie Sellars

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The cemetery grounds cover a tiny portion of the area that was searched, with most of the potential graves found in other parts of the site. Former senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said last summer that some survivors told of young girls who gave birth to babies fathered by priests, and the infants were “taken away from them and deliberately killed.”

The B.C. government appointed two liaisons to assist First Nations communities with searches. One of these representatives, Charlene Belleau,that she would like to find the remains of Augustine Allen, an ancestor who took his own life while at St. Joseph’s. He also noted that letters from parents to the school show that a group of nine students attempted to kill themselves by ingesting poisoned hemlock. Kukpi7 Sellars said Augustine Allen was the only one of them who died.

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