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According to government announcements, Canada will give hundreds of Indigenous communities USD2.8 billion (PHP152.7 billion) in reparations for nearly a century of abuse of children in residential schools.

Through this settlement, which is governed by the Four Pillars created by the Representative Plaintiffs, Canada is committed to repairing the collective harm caused by the residential school system and the loss of language, culture, and history.

According to the declaration, the Four Pillars include the preservation and protection of Indigenous languages, Indigenous cultures, history, and wellness for Indigenous communities and their members.

In order to aid survivors in their healing and reunification with their ancestry, it also stated, “This resolution seeks to revitalize Indigenous education, culture, and language.”

At the site of a former Indian Residential School, 171 unmarked “plausible burials,” according to a report from a different Canada First Nation community, have been found.

According to a press statement from the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, ground-penetrating radar was utilized in the vicinity of the graveyard at the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario.

More searches will be conducted at other sites “that have been identified through survivor testimony, archeological assessment, and archival investigations that show burial rituals conducted by former residential school staff,” according to the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, which still has 50 survivors of the school from the 1940s to 1960s.

Since the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada reported that at least 36 students died while attending St. Mary’s, the graves are probably those of children. From 1897 through 1972, the Catholic Church ran the institution.

It was one of 139 Indian Residential Schools that the Canadian government established, funded, and had religious organizations operate starting in the middle of the 1800s. The final one shut down in 1996. The intention of forcing Indigenous children to attend was to eradicate their culture and replace it with white culture.

The schools served some 150,000 students, and according to estimates from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Commission, at least 4,100 of those students perished from disease and hunger, while others experienced physical, psychological, and sexual abuse.

Too frequently, parents were never informed of their children’s deaths, and the children were frequently buried at the schools. Ground-penetrating radar has been used in the past few years to locate about 1,900 burials.

The treatment of Indigenous peoples and the residential schools have been referred to as a “sad and shameful chapter of our country’s history” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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