MONTREAL, Canada -- An Indigenous community in western Canada has discovered nearly 100 suspected unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school, officials said Tuesday.
Since 2021, communities across the country have recorded more than 1,300 unmarked graves near the religious educational institutions, which took in Indigenous children for more than a century as part of a Canadian policy of forced assimilation.
According to the University of Regina, the residential school was demolished by former students after its closure in 1995. This dark page in Canadian history was recently thrust back into the spotlight after the discovery in the spring of 2021 of the first child graves associated with a school, sparking a reckoning over the country's colonial history.
In April 2022, Pope Francis presented his apologies to a delegation of Indigenous Canadians at the Vatican, ahead of an official papal visit to the country.
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