Manitoba First Nation considers further excavations after church dig for unmarked graves

A Manitoba First Nation is weighing next steps in its search of a former residential school site after no human remains were found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement.  Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, excavated 14 anomalies found in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, […]

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Dogs flown in to search for unmarked graves in Cree territory

After George E. Pachano left residential school, he swore he would never return. But decades later, the 62-year-old, who was forced to spend four years of his childhood at St. Philip’s Indian Residential School (Anglican) of Fort George Island, is now helping co-ordinate the search for unmarked graves in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi….

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Excavation after 14 anomalies detected at former residential school site found no evidence of graves: Manitoba chief

Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the four-week excavation in a social media video Friday. He said the outcome takes “nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who attended the residential school in Pine Creek.” …

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Residential school survivor on the effort to get a meeting with the Pope

Evelyn Korkmaz is a survivor of St. Anne’s residential school in northern Ontario. Next month, she will be part of a group of residential school survivors traveling to Rome as part of an effort to get a meeting with Pope Francis…

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