How ground-penetrating radar is used to find unmarked graves at residential schools
Indigenous communities searching for unmarked graves have encountered a rising number of individuals questioning, or outright denying, that children disappeared or died in residential schools, says a new report from an independent special interlocutor.
Kisha Supernant is the director of the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology and serves as a member of the federal government’s national advisory committee on residential schools, missing children and unmarked burials. When her team does searches, they divide the area into a grid and walk a line with their ground-penetrating radar unit. It can be a slow process, Supernant says, depending on the size of the area being searched.
“We use the careful terminology because at the end of the day, ground-penetrating radar alone cannot 100 per cent confirm that there is a grave present or that there’s anything in that grave,” Supernant said. That’s why First Nations that have detected possible unmarked graves are exploring the possible options. Many communities are hoping to avoid disturbing the sites even more.
In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation announced it had detected 215 possible unmarked graves at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Supernant says some people were left with the impression that 215 children’s bodies had been found.But because some assume that ground-penetrating radar can do more than it can, a narrative has formed where those anomalies or possible graves have “become children.
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