May 29 2022
''WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
A year after the discovery of what are believed to be 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops residential school, First Nations across the country continue to search the grounds of residential schools where children from their communities went.
That includes ground searches underway at many of the 14 residential school sites in Manitoba.
After last May's discovery in Kamloops, survivors from Sandy Bay First Nation, on the western shore of Lake Manitoba, held a four-day vigil at the community's elders' centre and lit a sacred fire.
"Throughout those four days, the elders shared stories of their time in the residential school that they had in our community," said Sandy Bay Coun. Randal Roulette.
"The possibility of unmarked graves became part of the discussion," he said. "The general consensus was that they did want to do a ground search."
''Ongoing searches in Manitoba
Searches are also ongoing in Manitoba at
Cross Lake Residential School in Cross Lake, Fort Alexander Residential School
in Sagkeeng First Nation,
Pine Creek Residential School in Camperville and at the
Brandon Residential School.
A search was also started at
McKay Residential School in Dauphin.
The McKay Residential School (sometimes spelled as MacKay Residential School) had
two locations: the one in Dauphin, which opened in 1957 and closed in 1969, and one near The Pas and Opaskwayak Cree Nation on Fisher Island, that ran from 1914 to 1933.''
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