Federal government gives money for residential school site research in Saskatchewan

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Orange flags wave in front of a banner posted on the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan at Muskowekwan First Nation, Sask. The Government of Canada has allocated nearly $5 million for research into residential schools, unmarked graves and undocumented deaths in Saskatchewan.

Speaking at the site of the Muscowequan Indian Residential School, which is about 150 kilometres northeast of Regina, FSIN vice-chief David Pratt said the group is eager to work with member nations that had a residential school on their land “as soon as they’re ready to move forward.”The money comes from $27.

“Identifying burial locations of children who died while attending residential schools is fundamental to being able to, through ceremony, recognize these lost souls and honour them.” “A lot of the harms and the abuses and the sufferings of the residential schools have been opened – the wounds have reopened, fresh and anew, with the recent discovery,” he said.

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