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Jun 24, 2021 5:36 PM -
Saskatchewan's Cowessess First Nation says ground-penetrating radar has located 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation says it will take years to identify the bodies that could lay in 751 unmarked graves found at the site of a former residential school in the province.
But Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme says his community is commited to the task so it can heal.
Chief Cadmus Delorme says the community always knew the graves were there.
He showed a photo of a grassy field with coloured markers sticking out of the ground, saying not all of the graves are those of children, and some of them once had markers.
Delorme says stories have been passed down that adults were buried there as well.
