The Lower Kootenay Band in B-C’s southern Interior says a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school operated by the Catholic Church until the early 1970s.
The band says in a news release that the community of Aqam, another Ktunaxa nation, began using the technology last year to search a site near Cranbrook that’s close to the former St. Eugene’s Mission School.
It says the search found the remains in unmarked graves, some as shallow as 90 centimeters below the surface.
The Lower Kootenay Band says it’s in the early stages of receiving information about what has been found, and it’s asking the public to respect its privacy.
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