The graves were never a secret: Why so many residential school cemeteries remain unmarked

This week has yielded a near-unprecedented tide of national horror at news out of Kamloops that a ground radar survey has uncovered evidence of up to 215 unmarked graves of children who died while attending the Kamloops Indian Residential School. While Canadians have used such words as “shock” or “disbelief” to describe the discovery of up to 215 unmarked graves of children who died while attending the Kamloops Indian Residential School, the truth is much more telling: It was never a secret that the sites of Indian Residential Schools abounded with the graves of dead children. Communities and survivors knew the bodies were there, as did any investigation or government commission that bothered to ask.-- More...