REGINA: Leaders of indigenous groups in Canada said on Thursday investigators had found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month’s report of 215 at another school.

“This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan, said. He said he expects more graves will be found on residential school grounds across Canada.

We will not stop until we find all the bodies.

The bodies were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 to 1997 where the Cowessess First Nation is now located, about 85 miles east of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.

Chief Cadmusn Delmore of the Cowessess said that the graves were marked at one time, but that the Roman Catholic Church that operated the school had removed the markers.

The Pope needs to apologise for what happened, he said.

Last month the remains of 215 children were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2021