Indigenous children “victims of enforced disappearance”, says report

Between the 1870s and the late 1990s, over 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were forced to attend church-run, government-funded residential schools. As of three years ago, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation had documented more than 4,100 deaths of children at these institutions. In 2022, Kimberley Murray was appointed Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools.  She released her final report, Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience, last month.  We discuss the report with Professor Frank Deer of the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.