Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta.
"I always had to stay on high alert when I was there," Willier said, as he recalled his time between the age of seven and 17 at St. Bruno's Indian Residential School in Joussard, Alta., about 335 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. University of Alberta researchers recently found evidence of 88 potential unmarked graves near the former school.
She said the team found signs of unmarked graves outside of the school cemetery area at two locations — one of them close to the workshop on the school's grounds, the other near the priest's residence. But all interpretations and findings through the ground-penetrating system are not necessarily true, said Talisha Chaput, anthropology professor at the University of Alberta.
"People were wrapped in the blanket, and they cuddled in that blanket to show compassion, care and love," said Shane Pospisil, executive director of the Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council, which represents a number of First Nations around Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta.
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