Shell First Nation says that 41 “additional unwanted tombs” have been found as a result of a discovery with a ground-penetrating radar on the site of a former residential school.
On the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, the nation says that a team has been scanning the area around St. Augustine’s residential school site for the last 18 months, at the places identified through interviews with the remaining people.
It states that this discovery brings up the number of suspected graves to 81 on the site to 81 after the preliminary conclusions declared in 2023.
The communities of the first nation have used carefully the language when declaring the findings of such discoveries, from areas of discrepancies and interest to potential tombs, but the radich statement says that the tombs were “identified by archaeologists.”
The nation says that the children of its community as well as 53 other people were in Suskechewan residential school, and it is working with those communities in search of potential tombs.
The nation earlier announced in April 2023 that 40 uncharted grave site of St. Augustine and around and around it.
Chief Lenora who says the latest discoveries in a statement are not amazing, and the nation had “always enough evidence.”
