Bodies found at another former residential school in Canada

Markers once identified the site where at least 600 remains were buried at the Marieval Indian Residential School near Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan. But the Roman Catholic Church removed the markers, according to Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation. Leaders of Indigenous groups on Thursday announced investigators discovered the now-unmarked graves at the shuttered Canadian school using ground-penetrating radar.

What kind of school was this? Marieval, operated from 1899 to 1997, was one of many state-funded schools the Canadian government forced more than 150,000 Indigenous children to attend up until the 1970s. The government has admitted the children experienced physical and sexual abuse and received beatings for speaking their native languages. Last month, the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3, were found at the site of one of the largest of such schools in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Dig deeper: Read Samantha Gobba’s report in Compassion about the mass grave at Kamloops.