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Alberta pledges $8M to help First Nations locate and honour graves at residential schools

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First Nations and Metis settlements across Alberta will soon be able to apply for provincial funding to find and honour those children who didn’t come home from residential schools.

The Alberta Residential Schools Community Research Grant will total $8 million and will allow Indigenous communities across the province to qualify for up to $150,000 worth of funding.

Funding will go to Indigenous organizations who will decide how best to do the research.

The fund will also be available to communities to record histories and knowledge of elders, for engagement to determine how communities wish to proceed with a burial site, use of ground-penetrating radar and other technologies to explore potential unmarked burial sites and partnering with experts experienced in locating human burials and maintenance and commemorative work.

Tom Vernon reports.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7973770/alberta-residential-school-unmarked-grave-funding/

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