Tragic and surprising discoveries in schools in Western Canada

It was the indigenous Cowessess community that reported the discovery of hundreds of unidentified graves, defining the event as “horrible” and “shocking”.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations of Canada has stated that this number of graves would be “the largest to date in Canada”.

The head of the Assembly of First Nations organization, Perry Bellegarde, who represents more than 900,000 indigenous people, estimated that “it is absolutely tragic but not surprising. “

Following the discovery of children’s remains at the Kamloops hospice, excavations have started at similar schools across Canada with government support, AFP news agency reported.

This discovery rekindled appeals to Pope Francis and the Catholic Church to apologize for the abuse and violence suffered by students at these residential schools where they were forcibly taken to assimilate into the mainstream culture.

Native children lived at the Marieval orphanage from 1899 to 1997, and it was demolished two years later and replaced by a school.

According to a survey, Some 150,000 Amerindian, Métis and Enuit children were recruited against their will until the 1990s, in 139 residential schools in the country where they were isolated from their families, their language and their culture.

Many have been victims of sexual abuse or violence and more than 4,000 have died, concluding that Canada has committed “cultural genocide”.