MKO, Sioux Valley call for government protection of residential school graves – Winnipeg | 24CA News
Manitoba Indigenous teams say graves containing the stays of former residential faculty youngsters within the Brandon space want authorities safety beneath the Heritage Resources Act.
Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) and Sioux Valley Dakota Nation have petitioned each the provincial and federal governments to guard the stays, that are at present positioned on personal land.
Work has been underway for years — regardless of being placed on momentary maintain as a result of COVID-19 pandemic — to establish the greater than 100 potential graves at cemeteries on the location of the previous Brandon Indian Residential School, which operated from 1895 to 1972 earlier than being demolished in 2000.
“We have been asking the province to implement the act to protect the graves of those who perished while attending Brandon Indian Residential School for two years now,” stated MKO Grand Chief Garrison Settee in a launch Tuesday.
“The crux of the issue is ensuring that the remains of those children are not at risk. Right now they are. We realize this is a complex issue but given the length of time the province has had to act, we felt we had no recourse but to go public with our plight.”
More details about the continuing subject can be introduced at a news convention Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. from Long Plain First Nation lands in Winnipeg.
Global News will stream the occasion stay on this web page.
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