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A group of Saskatchewan First Nations is inviting the wider public to witness its initial efforts to find unmarked graves at a residential school site in Delmas, about 425 kilometres northwest of Regina.
On Saturday morning, Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs (BATC), which represents six First Nations in Saskatchewan's northwest, will oversee ground-penetrating radar work, conducted by SNC-Lavalin for free, at a hayfield where the Delmas Indian Residential school once stood.
Launched in 1901 by the Roman Catholic Church, the school, also known as Thunderchild and St. Henri, was overcrowded, and students suffered and often died there from a wide range of illnesses such as typhoid, peritonitis, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, jaundice and pneumonia, https://nctr.ca/residential-schools/saskatchewan/thunderchild-st-henri /" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
