By Anna Mehler Paperny – Globe and Mail
I do not, as a rule, like to have things up my nose.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Globe and Mail
I do not, as a rule, like to have things up my nose.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
A juvenile rib, a tooth and survivors’ testimony that children were dragged from their beds in the middle of the night to dig graves in an apple orchard gave clues on where to conduct the radar search that found unmarked graves of children at a former Canadian residential school, researchers said on Thursday.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
A second discovery this week of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former Canadian residential school is giving fresh impetus to nationwide searches for more remains by indigenous groups, complicated by land rights restrictions, incomplete records and disagreements over how to honor the dead.
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Moira Warburton – Reuters
An indigenous group in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Thursday said it had found the unmarked graves of an estimated 751 people at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar, smaller discovery rocked the country.
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Snatched up in cattle carts and by bus, tens of thousands of indigenous children taken to Canadian residential schools run mostly by the Catholic Church lived a “paramilitary” lifestyle, waking early to pray, waiting rigidly in lines and enduring regular beatings, survivors said.