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July 14, 2021

More Unmarked Graves Found at Another Canadian School for First Nations Children
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In Canada, over 160 unmarked graves have been found at the former Kuper
Island Industrial School, which operated as a boarding school for
Indigenous children from 1890 to 1975 on Penelakut Tribe territory. This
is the latest in a series of recent discoveries of hundreds of other
unmarked graves, which have shed light on the brutality of former
government-funded boarding schools run by the Catholic Church across
Canada. Some 150,000 Indigenous children were sent to the schools, many
separated from their families.


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