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> Last month, the Cowessess began to use ground-penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves at the cemetery of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

Hundreds of unmarked graves found at cemetery?

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I'm not sure what your question is asking, but this school operated under government control for ~85 years.

Meanwhile, Canada's memorial for IRS schools recognizes that 8 students died there: https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/saskatchewan-fr/marieval...

So there's a bit of a discrepancy.

How many schools do you know have their own cemetary?

Literally all boarding schools up until like the 1950s. You realize that kids were dropping like flies before the 50s, right? Many US presidents had children who died of the flu. Coolidge, Lincoln, Eisenhower, and more. The school in question was around for 70 years. That's 3 deaths a year, including the 1918 pandemic.

These places were definitely fucked up cultural genocide factories, but let's suddenly forget about child mortality

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