The British Columbia government says the Williams Lake First Nation is planning to excavate the site of a former residential school to recover possible human remains and has signed an agreement with the province and RCMP to help guide the process.
It says the research has determined Indigenous children died “and are likely interred” on or near sites associated with the school, leading to the First Nation’s plans for “targeted excavations.” He says in the news release that the agreement “provides the clarity we need in relation to future investigative activities and ensures the careful, culturally sensitive and respectful treatment of any human remains that might be recovered.”
The government says a team made up of senior leadership from each of the signatories will act in an advisory capacity. The investigation at St. Joseph’s, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, was launched after ground-penetrating radar located what are believed to be more than 200 graves at a former residential school in Kamloops in May 2021, prompting similar searches and findings at former institutions in several other provinces.
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