LETTER

 

---- Questions about residential graves

 

Residential school graves near at least one school appear to contain some local inhabitants, and not only students. 

Media reports were quick to characterize the graves as belonging to children who attended the nearby Marieval Indian Residential School (Saskatchewan). But, according to a band councillor, that’s not necessarily the case. “It appears that not all of the graves contain children’s bodies,” councillor Jon Z. Lerat told the Globe and Mail, noting that this was also the burial site used by the rural municipality. 

Please read the article by Candice Malcom of the Toronto Sun,  July 12, 2021, and tell me if there is a distant possibility, or even likelihood, that the bodies found at the other residential schools are of local inhabitants. 

Robert Nelly

Gatineau