And with Indigenous communities, they would prefer, often, to have less destructive methods, so ways to not disturb a lot of earth. “So I’ve been an archaeologist now for about 20 years. The rest of the team is made up of graduate students, including Micaela Champagne, who, along with Kisha, is Indigenous. They’re using ground-penetrating radar to locate burial sites. They deserve to be honored and respected, you know? That’s all I think that they would want.” “I’m very confident that there is something there.” The archaeologists Terence Clark and Kisha Supernant are leading the search effort. “I’m at a place where I’m trying to understand, what’s this all mean for - for all of us right now? People are angry with the finding of our kids. She also went to the Muskowekwan Residential School. There’s a big hill over here - all graves, all graves.” “About the researchers coming here, it’s been a long time coming.” Laura Oochoo is Harvey’s longtime partner. “We lived on top of the graves for many, many years. Elders have long shared stories of what happened at these schools but were rarely believed outside their community. And you could just draw a circle so we could find out exactly where these graves are.” The First Nation has invited archaeologists to search for unmarked graves, and survivor testimony will be crucial.
They’re our children.” “You look at your map. Today, he still visits the grounds of the former school, even though it shut down in 1997. Your ceremonies, that’s paganism.’ That’s how they spoke to us.” After his years as a student, Harvey worked as the school’s caretaker for 22 years. This is where we used to pray 10 times a day.
They were established by the Canadian government and initially run by the Catholic Church. He was already -” Generations of Indigenous children suffered physical and sexual abuse inside the boarding schools. They shave your head, cut off your braids. Small boys’ dorm - this is where we were kept. I cried so much because of the harshness. “And I remember being locked in the dorm. And people have never listened.” Harvey Desjarlais was taken to residential school when he was 6 1/2 years old. But nothing has been done.” Here, some residential school survivors hope that scientific evidence will reveal to the rest of the world a truth they’ve long known. “There’s nothing on the surface, but once we interpret the data, we can see if we can find these children.” We followed a team of archaeologists who came to the Muskowekwan First Nation to investigate what lies beneath the ground.
Now, more than 20 years after the last school shut down, searches for the remains of these lost children are happening across the country. “What residential school was, and still is, is a nightmare.” For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their homes and sent to residential schools to forcibly assimilate them into white society. We followed a team of archaeologists who came to the Muskowekwan First Nation to search for the graves of these lost children. Thousands were never seen again and survivors were long ignored. Transcript Searching for the Unmarked Graves of Indigenous Children For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend residential schools, where many endured abuse.
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