Remains of 215 Children recovered in Closed Indigenous School In Canada

Canada: Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest of 139 boarding schools set up in the late 19th century.

 Ottawa: The remains of 215 children were found on the grounds of a former boarding school more than a hundred years ago to accommodate indigenous Canadians, according to a local tribe.

The expert used a ground radar to verify the remains of students attending a school near Kamloops, British Columbia, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc said in a statement late Thursday.

"Some were three years old," said King Rosanne Casimir, calling it the "unimaginable loss that was talked about but never recorded" by the school authorities.

Its first results are expected to be released in a report next month, he said.

In the meantime, the nation is working with the coroner and museums to try to shed further light on the horrific discovery and discovery of any records of these deceased people.

It is also accessible to local student communities throughout British Columbia and beyond.

"My heart goes out to the families and communities affected by this tragic news," Minister of Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett tweeted, offering government support "for their healing as we honor lost loved ones."

Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest of the 139 schools built in the late 19th century, where students were enrolled and studying at the same time.

It was used by the Catholic church on behalf of the Canadian government from 1890 to 1969.

About 150,000 Indian, Inuit, and Metis youths have been forcibly enrolled in these schools, where students are subjected to physical and sexual abuse by principals and teachers who rob them of their culture and language.

Today those situations are blamed on high levels of poverty, alcohol and domestic violence, as well as high suicide rates in their communities.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has identified the names, or details of at least 3,200 children who died as a result of abuse or neglect while still in boarding school. The exact number remains unknown.

At a school in Kamloops, the principal in 1910 had expressed concern that government subsidies were not enough to feed the students properly, according to a statement from Tk'emlups te Secwepemc.

Ottawa officially apologized in 2008 for what the commission later called a "cultural extermination" as part of a settlement of Can $ 1.9 billion (US $ 1.6 billion) with former students.