Cree leaders, scientists to excavate ‘communal grave’ near former Alberta residential school – Daily Guardian
January 25, 2024
Leaders of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation are planning to unearth a potential mass grave near a former residential school, while accusing the RCMP and medical examiner of negligence and racism.
The announcement came after scientists at the International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague, Netherlands, concluded that a skull found near a former school site is that of a child under the age of five.
“This is a humanitarian recovery. Not a prosecutorial or a criminal investigation,” Leah Redcrow told reporters at a Wednesday morning press conference in Enoch, Alta.
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