Across Canada, a quiet effort is underway to uncover the identities of Indigenous children who might be in suspected graves found on the former grounds of Canada’s residential schools. Researchers are using science, archives, and discussions with knowledge keepers to name the children who lost their lives at these institutions. For The New Reality, Krista Hessey travelled to Manitoba to show us the grueling detective work that goes on alongside the discovery of unmarked graves – and to meet one community that is trying to unlock clues about what happened to their missing children.
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