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“And I remember actually pushing back my chair and standing up from the table, and saying, ‘We are not talking about documents. We are not talking about numbers. We are not talking about statistics. We are talking about little children and little children’s lives and those who are still lost.’ And I was shaking and I can feel myself back in that same moment right now.”Article content
Wilson recalled that in some TRC remarks she made in 2015, she said it was known at that time “that 50 per cent of them, half of them … would be considered criminal today in Canada we did not know the cause of death. And as for where those children were buried, we knew that it was all over the map, literally.”Article content
The Indian Register is a compilation of all First Nations people since about the 1800s, he said, while the Indian Trust Fund includes a line-item ledger indicating what costs students paid for, including their own coffins. While doing that search, he said, they became aware of two girls who passed away at the Shingwauk hospital.