{"id":44029,"date":"2022-02-18T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=44029"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:00:45","slug":"dozens-more-graves-found-at-former-residential-school-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/44029\/dozens-more-graves-found-at-former-residential-school-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens more graves found at former residential school sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Keeseekoose First Nation said the graves were found near Fort Pelly and St Phillip&#8217;s residential schools, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest finding amid a wave that has triggered a national debate over the residential school system.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous investigations across the country have found evidence of more than 1,100 graves since last spring.<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks ago, the Williams Lake First Nation announced it had found evidence of 93 unmarked graves on the grounds of St Joseph Mission, a former residential school.<\/p>\n<p>These government-funded compulsory boarding schools were part of a policy meant to assimilate indigenous children and destroy indigenous cultures and languages.<\/p>\n<p>Some 150,000 First Nations, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit children were taken from their families during this period and placed in these schools.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors had long testified that children who died at the schools were buried in unmarked plots, now being rediscovered throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Quewezance, the project leader of the Keeseekoose&#8217;s search, said ground-penetrating radar technology suggested there were 42 gravesites at the grounds of Fort Pelly Residential School, and an additional 12 at St Phillip&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference on Tuesday, Mr Quewezance said the discovery matched testimony of residential school survivors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not that they could not hear, but [that] they did not believe our survivors,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>RHM\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeseekoose First Nation said the graves were found near Fort Pelly and St Phillip&#8217;s residential schools, BBC reported. It is the latest finding amid a wave that has triggered a national debate over the residential school system. Indigenous investigations across the country have found evidence of more than 1,100 graves since last spring. Just weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}