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This is an article that overviews the news report that aired on TV after the findings of the mass graves. The original broadcast took place in Canada where the graves were found, and showed the exact spot where the first discoveries were made. They even brought some survivors into the old school, and they showed the rooms where they endured sexual and verbal abuse. They shared stories of their past, many of which they tried to forget about, but could not. One survivor described being renamed "65" and another talked about the rape of her cousin when she was only 8 years old.
I watched this episode of 60 Minutes when it first aired. This is what made me decide to do my current event on the Indigenous People in Canada. I watched 60 Minutes throughout all of High School, and I have learned so much from watching these episodes. This episode is what has been the center around which I have based my findings.
The Ad Fontes Media shows CBC News to have a good reliability rating, in regards to analysis and fact reporting. While it does tend to favor the left, its news reporting is very neutral, and I agree with this. I feel that there were no biases in this source in regard to my current event.

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Last year, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history. Starting in the 1880's and for much of the 20th century, more than 150,000 children from hundreds of indigenous communities across Canada were forcibly taken from their parents by the government and sent to what were called Residential Schools. Funded by the state and run by churches, they were designed to assimilate and Christianize indigenous children by ripping them from their parents, their culture, and their community. The children were often referred to as savages and forbidden from speaking their languages or practicing their traditions. As we firstreported earlier this year, many were physically and sexually abused, and thousands of children never made it home.

The last of Canada's 139 residential schools for indigenous children closed in 1998. Most have been torn down, but the Muskowekwan residential school in Saskatchewan still stands. Its windows boarded up, Its rooms gutted. A reminder to a nation that would rather forget. A three-storey tombstone for generations of children who died here.

Leona Wolf: Sometimes, I wish it would be gone for all what happened here.

Anderson Cooper: You wish this had been torn down?

Leona Wolf: Yeah. I could hear everything in here, what was done. It lingers.

Leona Wolf, who comes from the Muskowekwan reserve, was five years old when she says she was taken from her home in 1960. School officials and police would often show up unannounced in indigenous communities and round up children, some as young as three. Parents could be jailed if they refused to hand their children over. When kids arrived at their schools, their traditional long hair was shaved off. If they tried to speak their language, they were often punished.

Leona Wolf: They put me in a little dark room like that. And they'd shut the door and then they'd take off the light. All I had to look through was this much light, like I was in jail.

She says the abuse many kids at Muskowekwan suffered from the Catholic priests and nuns wasn't just physical.

Leona Wolf: Father Joyal was fondling the girls here.

Anderson Cooper: A priest, Father Joyal, was fondling girls in this room?

Leona Wolf: Yeah. This used to be sick bay. They used to have a bed here

Anderson Cooper: And he would take girls into the bed?

Leona Wolf: Yeah, my cousin.

Anderson Cooper: He took your cousin in here? How old was she?

Leona Wolf: She was only 8.

Leona Wolf: I grew up a very, very mean woman because of all what happened to me.

Anderson Cooper: You learned that here, you think?

Leona Wolf: Yeah

She is not the only one. More than 150,000 children were sent to residential schools, which Canada's first prime minister supported to, in his words, "sever children from the tribe" and "civilize" them. For much of the 20th century, the Canadian government supported that mission.

The idea for the schools came in part from the United States. In 1879 the Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened in Pennsylvania, where this photo was taken of Native American children when they first arrived. This is them four months later. The school's motto was "kill the Indian, save the man."

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Consequently, ours was, "kill the Indian in the child."

Anderson Cooper: "Kill the Indian in the child."

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Mhhm.

Anderson Cooper: That was the guiding principle here in Canada.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Yeah.

Chief Wilton Littlechild, who is Cree, was six years old when he was taken to this residential school in Alberta. Then, he says, he was given a new name.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: My name was number 65 for all those years.

Anderson Cooper: Just a number.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Just a number, yeah. "Sixty-five, pick that up stupid." Or, "65, why'd you do that, idiot?"

Anderson Cooper: What does that feel like at six years old to be called a number?

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Well, I think that's where the trauma begins. Not just the physical abuse, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse. And worst of all, sexual abuse.

Anderson Cooper: You were sexually abused.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: Yes. I think that's where my anger began as a young boy.

Chief Littlechild says he was able to take some of that anger out on the school's hockey rink. He won a scholarship to university and graduated, eventually going on to a distinguished career in law. But his story is the exception.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: They didn't kill my spirit. So, I'm still Cree. I'm still who I am. I'm not 65. My name is Mahigan Pimoteyw. So, they didn't kill my spirit.

In 2008, after thousands of school survivors filed lawsuits, the Canadian government formally apologized for its policies. It also set up a $1.9 billion compensation fund and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Chief Littlechild helped lead. For six years the commission heard testimony from survivors across the country.

Helen Quewezance: And she put me underwater, slapping me and hitting me, slapping me and hitting me, and punching me and punching me and holding me under water, pulling my hair, and I thought, "God she's going to kill me, I'm going to die first day of school."

Ted Quewezance: We as little boys and little girls, we lost our innocence.

In 2015 the Commission concluded what happened was "cultural genocide." It identified more than 3,000 children who died from disease due to overcrowding, malnutrition and poor sanitation, or died after being abused or trying to run away. A government study in 1909 found the death rate in some schools was as high as 20 times the national average. Most schools had their own cemeteries, and sometimes when children died, their parents were never informed.

Chief Wilton Littlechild: It's really traumatic for those families who don't know what happened to their child or relative in the schools.

Anderson Cooper: Why weren't kids who died at the schools, why weren't they sent home?

Chief Wilton Littlechild: To save money

Last year, archeologists detected what they said could be 200 unmarked graves at this former school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Weeks later, a further 751 unmarked graves were detected across from the former Marieval residential school on the Cowessess reserve in Saskatchewan. There was once a Catholic cemetery here, but the headstones were bulldozed in the 1960s by a priest after a dispute with a former chief.

A small team of researchers has been trying to discover the names of those children buried here, but for decades the government and the church had been reluctant to share their records. Chief Cadmus Delorme is trying to get answers.

Anderson Cooper: Do you know that they're all children?

Chief Cadmus Delorme: We can't verify how much are children, but based on the research we're doing, a lot of them were children that were forced to go to the Marieval Residential School and died in the Marieval residential school.

Chief Delorme says he hopes to give the unidentified children a dignity in death that they never received in life.

Chief Cadmus Delorme: I wanna make sure that Canada knows the truth, 'cause you can't move to reconciliation until you accept the truth.

The discoveries of the graves opened deep wounds. More than a dozen churches have been vandalized or destroyed, and thousands have marched demanding the Pope apologize and the churches open archives to help identify any missing children. Indigenous communities across the country have begun conducting their own searches using ground-penetrating radar.

Kisha Supernant: We've laid out a number of grids throughout this landscape.

Archeologists Kisha Supernant and Terry Clark say 35 unmarked graves have been discovered at the Muskowekwan school.

Terry Clark: There is something going on there that is not natural.

When we were there this past October, they found what appeared to be another. According to survivor accounts, children sometimes had to dig their classmates' graves.

Anderson Cooper: The priests or the school officials would force the kids to dig other children's graves?

Kisha Supernant: Yep, yep. Can you imagine being, like, ten or 11 and digging a grave for your classmate, what that must have been like?

Kisha Supernant says the search for unmarked graves will continue for years.

Kisha Supernant: This is very emotional work. It's very devastating work. It's heartbreaking for everyone who's involved.

Anderson Cooper: You feel that too?

Kisha Supernant: I do. Our communities still feel the impacts of these institutions in our everyday lives. We're way over-represented in child welfare and adoptions and foster care. We're way over-represented in the prisons. You can draw a direct line with that to these places and the pain of that, that has been passed on from generation to generation.

Ed Bitternose: I started school here in 1958.

Ed Bitternose, who is Cree, understands that pain. He was 8 years old when he was taken to the Muskowekwan school. His parents lived within sight of the school and when he tried to run away, he says the priests forced him to kneel on a broom handle for three days.

Ed Bitternose: That's where my house was. I would sit here and wonder why I couldn't be home.

Anderson Cooper: That must have been devastating.

Ed Bitternose: Yeah.

It wasn't only adults he feared. Some students, themselves victims of abuse, preyed on other children.

Anderson Cooper: Were you abused here?

Ed Bitternose: Yeah. Mhhm. Actually, in this room here, by one of the, one of the, one of the boys.

Anderson Cooper: In this very room?

Ed Bitternose: This very area here.

Later, he says, he was also sexually molested by a nun. When he left school, he was rudderless and violent and turned to alcohol. When he got married, he says, he didn't know how to show affection.

Anderson Cooper: You didn't know what love was?

Ed Bitternose: No. No. Because I never felt it here. I didn't start saying I loved her till we were married about 40 years, and then I was very careful how I said it.

Anderson Cooper: You didn't say to your wife for 40 years that you loved her?

Ed Bitternose: Mhhm. Yeah.

He says his life changed when he began re-discovering his Cree culture. Raising buffalo and sharing traditional knowledge with children brought healing, and finally, an understanding of the word love.

Anderson Cooper: You can say that now?

Ed Bitternose: I can say that now. And, and it feels good. And I still joke with my wife about that. "Don't say that too loud, you know."

Anderson Cooper: So, you can say it, you just don't want to say it too loud?

Ed Bitternose: Yes, uh-huh. Yeah.

Anderson Cooper: Okay. You know what, it's better than nothing.

Ed Bitternose: Yes, that's what she says.

As for Leona Wolf, her life and the lives of her children and grandchildren have been plagued by violence and substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, she says, that began the day her own mother was sent to school at Muskowekwan.

Anderson Cooper: Did you see the impact of this place on your mom?

Leona Wolf: Yeah. Yeah.

Anderson Cooper: How?

Leona Wolf: Yeah, by drinking a lot, being mean to me. And it impact us, me and my brother, and my siblings.

Anderson Cooper: What was done to her, she passed on to you. And what was done to you and others here...

Leona Wolf: Was passed on to my children. This is why sometimes I go into my rage of anger, and I cry, because it all, it was all done to us, all of us. But it's gonna stop now, you know? It is.

Anderson Cooper: You believe that?

Leona Wolf: I'm gonna, I'm breaking the cycle with my great-grandchildren.

Leona Wolf: Hail Mary, full of grace.

Leona Wolf has returned to her traditions as well. Walking the halls of Muskowekwan, she began to sing Hail Mary, a prayer she was forced to learn here long ago.

Now she sings it her own way.

Anderson Cooper: That's not how you sang it here when you were in school, though, was it?

Leona Wolf: Nope.

Anderson Cooper: You made peace with the Virgin Mary by singing that song?

Leona Wolf: Yeah, and I made peace with myself.

Last April at the Vatican, Pope Francis apologized to Canada's Indigenous peoples for the "deplorable" abuses they suffered in Catholic-run residential schools. He'll travel to Canada next month to make the apology in person.
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In 2021, there was a discovery of a mass grave with more than 200 indigenous children found at a former Kamloops Indian Residential School run by the Catholic Church from 1890 to 1978. These institutions across Canada were attended by approximately 150,000 children who experienced forced labor, physical, emotional and sexual abuse. In 2008, the Canadian Government apologized in Parliament and admitted to physical and sexual abuse being rampant in the schools.
I did like this news source. After doing research, I saw that the NY Post is not always the most credible source, rated from the Ad Fontes Chart. NY Post has a general bias that skews right, but is recognized as generally reliable. The form of bias that could relate to this current event is that it is American reporters writing about a foreign affair. However, I felt that the information given in the article matched that of other news sources, and gave accurate background information about the case. The author, Gabrielle Fonrouge, has also written more than 20 articles for the NY Post and appears to be a trustworthy author.

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A mass grave filled with the remains of 215 Indigenous children, some as young as three, has been found on the grounds of a former residential school in Canada that was known for physical, emotional and sexual abuse, reports said Friday.

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The first form of evidence found of the Indigenous graves was a child's rib bone and tooth found beneath an apple orchard. However, many of the survivors were upset that forensic evidence was needed to prove that hundreds of children were killed at the Catholic Residential Schools. These foundings also brought about many mixed emotions. Many are feeling anger that there is not an ongoing investigation looking into the crimes, while others are feeling traumatized reliving their past abuse, and mourning for all of the missing children.
I really enjoyed this article. It included many interview statements from victims and researchers, and the author, Paula Newton, has written more than 20 articles for CNN, and has a very high reputation. According to the Ad Fontes Media Chart, CNN has a high-reliability rating, and a bias that skews slightly left. I agree with this rating, because I found the source to be very well writte, it went into greatdeoth, more than other articles, and its information aligned with my other sources.

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The first forensic evidence that unmarked graves in their hundreds were located at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was a juvenile rib bone and tooth found beneath the apple orchard.

But survivors of the school say they didn't need forensic proof to know that hundreds of children went missing in Kamloops. And this week, new scientific evidence supported what indigenous elders in the Canadian province of British Columbia call the "Knowing."

In an emotional presentation by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation on Thursday, officials investigating the unmarked graves warned that more were likely to be found in the coming months.

"After all, this investigation has barely scratched the surface, covering just under two acres of the total 160-acre residential school site," said Sarah Beaulieu, a specialist in ground-penetrating radar who has been leading the forensic investigation.

As many as 200 graves have been found, according to preliminary results, down from an initial estimate in May of 215, but Beaulieu said that number could be revised higher with more forensic investigation and excavation.

"This fact, this 'knowing' has been recognized by indigenous communities for generations," Beaulieu said. "All residential school landscapes are likely to contain burials of missing children and remote sensing such as GPR merely provide some spatial specificity to this truth."

The evidence presented Thursday underscored the magnitude of the abuse and neglect of indigenous children, not just in British Columbia, but in dozens of residential school sites across Canada. Similar forensic investigations are underway at dozens of sites.

"We're talking clearly about thousands and thousands of missing children," said Lisa Hodgetts, president of the Canadian Archaeological Association.

Survivors dismiss the description of the institution as a school

Kamloops' survivors bore witness to the findings during the presentation and painted a bleak picture of what children as young as 5 were subjected at these schools, a term many survivors say they use with scorn as they say they were not educated, but instead neglected and abused sexually, physically and emotionally.

Evelyn Camille, a survivor of Kamloops, spoke about the abuse and neglect, about how many died trying to run away from the school, either drowning in a nearby river or freezing to death after they tried to escape in winter.

"We had tried to mention over and over and over, there are many children missing who did not reach home," Camille said.

The school, initially known as the Kamloops Industrial School, was opened in 1890 and remained in operation until 1978. It was opened and run by the Catholic Church until the federal government took it over in the late 1960s.

"I think it's unfortunate, as Dr. Beaulieu already noted, that it took the science to wake the world up to the truth that survivors and communities have known for years," Hodgetts said during the presentation.

Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation where the school is located, said both the federal government and the Roman Catholic Church should fully disclose all records of those who attended the schools.

"We are loath to put the responsibility of identifying those lost on the survivors of Kamloops Indian Residential School, who have been traumatized and re-traumatized already," Casimir said, calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government to share the attendance records.

It would be "a first step in assisting Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc in fulfilling their obligations regarding those lost without acknowledgment and as steps towards reconciliation," Casimir said.

Indigenous leaders say what happened were crimes

The Canadian government has said that it would fund more investigations into unmarked graves in indigenous communities across the country, but it has also faced criticism for not doing so sooner, as outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its 2015 report.

Trudeau has said since the initial discovery in Kamloops in late May that his government will cooperate and provide funding for investigations.

"There will be more funding as necessary to continue to allow communities to grieve, to heal, and to get answers," Trudeau said during a news conference in Montreal on Thursday. "And at the same time we have also committed over many years and we will continue to recommit to sharing any and all records that the federal government has in helping to identify these graves," he said.

Indigenous leaders have said in recent weeks that what happened in the schools were crimes and that they should be investigated as such.

Survivors at the presentation talked about how traumatized they have been in recent weeks, reliving their past abuse and mourning for those children who lost their lives.

"I can remember a boy named Riley, cowering under one of the supervisors in the bathroom and it wasn't too long after that he supposedly hung himself," said Bruce Allen, a residential school survivor, in an interview with CNN from at the Kamloops site.

Allen said there is no way of knowing if that boy, who he assumes was about 12 years old, committed suicide after being "tormented," or if a crime was committed.

He says in recent weeks he has watched hundreds of people, including many non-indigenous Canadians, come to pay their respects at a memorial on the school grounds and he says many have now come to know the truth about Canada.

Allen works as a counselor with a crisis line for survivors and he says some who have reached out to him since the initial discovery of unmarked graves, have never spoken of the abuse they have suffered or the abuse they may have witnessed.

"It's awakened them, people who have never spoken about it are telling their stories and there is lots of pain and lots of sadness," he said.

He says as more people learn the truth of how many unmarked gravesites exist and how many children are unaccounted for, they are being flooded with calls from survivors who are trying to come to terms with the magnitude of what they call cultural genocide.

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The first forensic evidence that unmarked graves in their hundreds were located at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was a juvenile rib bone and tooth found beneath the apple orchard. But survivors of the school say they didn't need forensic proof to know that hundreds of children went missing in Kamloops.

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A month after the findings at Kamloops, more than 750 unmarked graves were found near the former Marieval Indian Residential School after an investigation conducted by the Cowesses First Nation using Radar Scanning. The school operated under the Roman Catholic Church from 1899 to 1996, with the goal to assimilate Indigeous children into the Canadian Society. During the 1960s, the church removed the headstones to the graves of the children and adults.
I really enjoyed this article. It went into great depth into the background information of the issue, and even talked about the side effects that are still being felt by Indigenous communities today, such as a legacy of drug and alcohol abuse. Additionally, NBC is also recognized as a reliable source from the Ad Fontes Chart. It has accurate analysis and fact reporting, and has a bias that skews slightly left.

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Hundreds of unmarked graves have been located near a former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada, an Indigenous group announced Thursday. The finding follows the discovery last month of human remains at a similar site - prompting a national reckoning of a shameful chapter in Canadian history.

A preliminary investigation by Cowessess First Nation, whose lands are located in the Saskatchewan province, led to an estimated 751 unmarked graves at a cemetery near the former Marieval Indian Residential School, Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said at a virtual news conference. Radar scanning was used in the area as part of the investigation this month.

The school operated from 1899 to about 1996, and the nearby cemetery had been run by the Roman Catholic Church until Cowessess took it over in 1981, CTV News reported.

Delorme emphasized that the findings were of unmarked graves and not a mass gravesite. He said the Catholic Church first removed the cemetery's headstones in the 1960s.

It is unclear how many of the remains detected belong to children, Delorme said, adding that "there are oral stories that there are adults in this gravesite as well."

According to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which published a report that found the country's residential school system amounted to cultural genocide, a cemetery was left on the Marieval site after the school building was demolished.

"We didn't remove the headstones," Delorme said. "Removing headstones is a crime in this country. We are treating this like a crime scene."

The latest revelation comes a month after the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died.

The Canadian government apologized in Parliament in 2008 and admitted that physical and sexual abuse in the schools was rampant. Many students recall being beaten for speaking their native languages; they also lost touch with their parents and customs.

Indigenous leaders have cited that legacy of abuse and isolation as the root cause of epidemic rates of alcoholism and drug addiction on reservations.

The discovery in Kamloops had dominated Canadian headlines in recent weeks and forced the country's leaders to call for Canada to be "confronted with the truth" and investigate further.
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"Sadly, this is not an exception or an isolated incident," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier this month.

The United States also plans to investigate its own history involving the treatment and abuse of Native American children at boarding schools.

The unprecedented work will include compiling and reviewing records to identify past boarding schools, locate known and possible burial sites at or near those schools, and uncover the names and tribal affiliations of students, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

"To address the intergenerational impact of Indian boarding schools and to promote spiritual and emotional healing in our communities, we must shed light on the unspoken traumas of the past no matter how hard it will be," Haaland, a member of New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo and the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, said.

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Pope Francis visited Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples for the abuse endured at the Catholic Schools, in an effort to reconcile with Native Communities. This visit stirred emotions across Canada as survivors were seeking more than words, but wanted justice for the abusers.
I did like this article, and it was recommended to me by a classmate. It was a Montana News Publication, written by The Associated Press. Although the Associated Press is not found on the Ad Fontes Media Chart, The Associated Press is regarded as the most widely used news service in the world, and has a high reliability rating. I felt as though the article was able to clearly articulate why Indigenous individuals did not feel relief from the Pope's words.

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EDMONTON, Alberta - Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church's efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.

Francis kissed the hand of a residential school survivor as he was greeted at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport by Indigenous representatives, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, an Inuk who is Canada's first Indigenous governor general.

The gesture set the tone of what Francis has said is a "penitential pilgrimage" to atone for the role of Catholic missionaries in the forced assimilation of generations of Native children - a visit that has stirred mixed emotions across Canada as survivors and their families cope with the trauma of their losses and receive a long-sought papal apology.

Francis had no official events scheduled Sunday, giving him time to rest before his meeting Monday with survivors near the site of a former residential school in Maskwacis, where he is expected to pray at a cemetery and apologize.

Francis exited the back of his plane with the help of an ambulift, given his strained knee ligaments have forced him to use a wheelchair. The simple welcome ceremony took place in airport hangar, where Indigenous drums and chanting broke the silence. As Trudeau and Simon sat beside Francis, a succession of Indigenous leaders and elders greeted the pope and exchanged gifts. At one point, Francis kissed the hand of residential school survivor Elder Alma Desjarlais of the Frog Lake First Nations as she was introduced to him.

"Right now, many of our people are skeptical and they are hurt," said Grand Chief George Arcand Jr. of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, who greeted the pope. Yet he expressed hope that with the papal apology, "We could begin our journey of healing .. and change the way things have been for our people for many, many years."

Indigenous groups are seeking more than just words, though, as they press for access to church archives to learn the fate of children who never returned home from the residential schools. They also want justice for the abusers, financial reparations and the return of Indigenous artifacts held by the Vatican Museums.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, one of the country's most prominent Indigenous leaders, said several members of her family attended residential schools, including a sister who died at one in Ontario. She described it as "an institution of assimilation and genocide."

During her fight to Alberta, "I was just so overcome with emotion and there were different times on the plane where I really had to stop myself from breaking into a deep sob," she said. "I realized that I am an intergenerational trauma survivor and there are so many people like me."

Francis' week-long trip - which will take him to Edmonton; Quebec City and finally Iqaluit, Nunavut, in the far north - follows meetings he held in the spring at the Vatican with delegations from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit. Those meetings culminated with a historic April 1 apology for the "deplorable" abuses committed by some Catholic missionaries in residential schools.

The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse were rampant in the state-funded Christian schools that operated from the 19th century to the 1970s. Some 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to attend in an effort to isolate them from the influence of their homes, Native languages and cultures and assimilate them into Canada's Christian society.

Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology over the residential schools in 2008. As part of a lawsuit settlement involving the government, churches and approximately 90,000 surviving students, Canada paid reparations that amounted to billions of dollars being transferred to Indigenous communities. Canada's Catholic Church says its dioceses and religious orders have provided more than $50 million in cash and in-kind contributions, and hope to add $30 million more over the next five years.

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 had called for a papal apology to be delivered on Canadian soil, but it was only after the 2021 discovery of the possible remains of around 200 children at the former Kamloops residential school in British Columbia that the Vatican mobilized to comply with the request.

"I honestly believe that if it wasn't for the discovery ... and all the spotlight that was placed on the Oblates or the Catholic Church as well, I don't think any of this would have happened," said Raymond Frogner, head archivist at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Frogner just returned from Rome where he spent five days at the headquarters of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, which operated 48 of the 139 Christian-run residential schools, the most of any Catholic order. After the graves were discovered, the Oblates finally offered "complete transparency and accountability" and allowed him into its headquarters to research the names of alleged sex abusers from a single school in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan, he said.

The Inuit community, for its part, is seeking Vatican assistance to extradite a single Oblate priest, the Rev. Joannes Rivoire, who ministered to Inuit communities until he left in the 1990s and returned to France. Canadian authorities issued an arrest warrant for him in 1998 on accusations of several counts of sexual abuse, but it has never been served.

Inuit leader Natan Obed personally asked Francis for the Vatican's help in extraditing Rivoire, telling The Associated Press in March that it was one specific thing the Vatican could do to bring healing to his many victims.

Asked about the request, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said last week that he had no information on the case.

At a news conference Saturday in Edmonton, organizers said they will do all they can to enable school survivors to attend the papal events, particularly for the Maskwacis apology and the Tuesday gathering at Lac Ste. Anne, long a popular pilgrimage site for Indigenous Catholics.

Both are in rural areas, and organizers are arranging shuttle transport from various park-and-ride lots. They noted that many survivors are now elderly and frail and may need accessible vehicle transport, diabetic-friendly snacks and other services.

The Rev. Cristino Bouvette, national liturgical coordinator for the papal visit, who is partly of Indigenous heritage, said he hopes the visit is healing for those who "have borne a wound, a cross that they have suffered with, in some cases for generations."

Bouvette, a priest in the Diocese of Calgary, said the papal liturgical events will have strong Indigenous representation - including prominent roles for Indigenous clergy and the use of Native languages, music and motifs on liturgical vestments.

Bouvette said he's doing this work in honor of his "kokum," the Cree word for grandmother, who spent 12 years at a residential school in Edmonton. She "could have probably never imagined those many years later that her grandson would be involved in this work."

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Updated July 24, 2022 at 8:37 PM ET EDMONTON, Alberta - Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church's efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.

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A series of stabbings near Saskatchewan left 10 Indigenous people dead and 15 wounded. The killings appear to be both targeted and random, and is regarded as one of the deadliest mass killings in Canada.
This post was also written by The Associated Press, so I know I can trust the information being written. I also felt this was an important article to add because it demonstrates that Indigenous peoples are still facing brutality. Since the colonization of the British, Native Americans have faced unfair treatment that has yet to be resolved.

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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) - A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched across the expansive province for two suspects.

The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.

Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random. She couldn't provide a motive.

"It is horrific what has occurred in our province today," Blackmore said, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found.

It is among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States.

Blackmore said police began receiving reports before 6 a.m. of stabbings on the First Nation community. More reports of attacks quickly followed and by midday police issued a warning that a vehicle reportedly carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 335 kilometers (208 miles) south of the communities where the stabbings occurred.

Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were sighted there around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.

Regina Police Evan Bray said late Sunday they still believe the suspects are in the city of Regina and urged residents to follow alerts and provide information if they have.

"If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations," the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.

The suspects were identified as Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30. Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list last May that included Myles, writing that he was "unlawfully at large."

Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.

But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.

"He wouldn't show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mumbled his name twice and we still couldn't get it," she said. "He said his face was injured so bad he couldn't show it."

She said the man was by himself and "kind of a little wobbly."

"I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said 'Don't follow him, get back here.'"

Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.

"I collapsed and hit the ground. I've known him since I was just a little girl,″ she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his homemade Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his neighbors.

"He didn't do anything. He didn't deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,″ said Works.

She said the event has shaken a community where the sounds of sirens are rarely heard.

"No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They're going to be terrified to open their door,″ she said

Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.

"He wouldn't hurt a fly,″ he said.

Rush said Petterson's adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police.

At the Weldon Christian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.

At the James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gathering place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs.

A sign on the door said: "Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice."

The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency on Sunday.

Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson said he'd left his phone off on Sunday morning and only learned of the tragic events when community members came to his door to check on him. He is not related to the two suspects.

Everyone's been affected, he said.

"They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we're all related here, so it's pretty hard,″ Sanderson said. "It's pretty horrific."

The emergency declaration, which was released by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said two emergency operations centers have been set up.

"This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the Chiefs and Councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people," said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had "deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″

The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.

"A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties," authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement he was "shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks."

"As Canadians, we mourn with everyone affected by this tragic violence, and with the people of Saskatchewan," Trudeau said.

Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China's southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.

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Associated Press journalist Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

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Stabbings in Canada kill 10, wound 15; suspects at large

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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) - A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched across the expansive province for two suspects. The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in...

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The Chief of the Saskatchewan First Nation stated that healing was needed after 10 people were killed, and 18 were injured. The key suspect, Myles Sanderson went into a medical distress shortly after being arrested in a ditch off the freeway, and the other suspect, Sanderson's brother, was found dead. The First Nation gathered together in hopes that the affected families would find healing, and honor their loved ones.
After researching this news source, I found that it has minimal bias and is very credible due to its balanced story selection and minimal use of emotional language. Although the article was pretty vague, it was all factual and expanded upon what was most important which made the article easy to understand.

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Chief to speak after mass stabbing suspect dies following four-day manhunt

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The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation is set to speak the day after the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage died in police custody following a four-day manhunt.

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The Chief of the James Smith Cree Nation and other leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund an on-reserve addiction treatment center following the stabbing of the Saskatchewan First Nation.  Substance abuse is more common in Indigenous communities due to colonization, the residential school system, and intergenerational trauma.
I really enjoy reading this News Website. Every one of their authors is of Indigenous descent, and lives within the area that the story is covering. The author of this article is Yasmine Ghania from Saskatoon, who has written many other articles for CBC. It also has a low bias rating, which makes it even more trustworthy.

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The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centres following the horrific stabbing rampage on the Saskatchewan First Nation and neighbouring town of Weldon.

"We've got to protect our community, fight against drugs and alcohol," James Smith Chief Wally Burns told reporters at a news conference Thursday.

Rob Head, chief of the Peter Chapman Band - one of three nations that make up James Smith Cree Nation - told CBC News some of his own family members are addicted to crystal meth and require facilities for long-term treatment.

"It's something that requires between 30 days to 90 days of treatment just to be able to get yourself back to a normal way of thinking," he said. "Other than that, you're pretty much addicted. If you don't go into treatment, it's not something that you can just quit cold turkey."

WATCH | James Smith Cree Nation prepares to mourn victims of stabbing rampage:

Substance use is more common in Indigenous communities because of colonization, the residential school system and intergenerational trauma, advocates and Indigenous leaders say.

Drug addiction, especially to crystal meth, is rampant in James Smith Cree Nation, according to Head.

"I can't believe how fast it creeped into our First Nations and it took control of all of our young people that have tried it," he said.

James Smith residents have also told CBC that the drug problem is out of control.

"We've got to tackle it before it gets any bigger than it is now," Head said.

James Smith Cree Nation doesn't have any facilities that can provide long-term support to people struggling with a crystal meth addiction, according to Head.

The community has Sakwatamo Lodge, which is a 42-day residential treatment program.

"We need like 30 days, 60 days, 90 days of detox just to get people back to normal and then they have to go into to therapy and treatment. And those kinds of things are not here in First Nations country," Head said.

There are 10 treatment centres in Saskatchewan specifically for First Nations people, according to the Government of Canada website.

Alleged assailant's long drug history

One of the alleged assailants in a violent string of stabbings over the Labour Day Weekend had a long history of drug use, as documented in court records.

Parole Board of Canada documents from February of this year reveal that Myles Sanderson, 32, struggled with drug and alcohol use in late childhood and started using cocaine at age 14.

RCMP say they don't yet have a motive for the killings and may never get one, now that he's dead.

The attacks left 10 dead and 18 others injured. Those tallies don't include Sanderson or his brother Damien, 31, who also died. Both were charged with first-degree murder.

On Tuesday, Minister of Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu said on social media that the government is committed to "advancing the immediate, medium, and long-term goals and needs" identified by James Smith Cree Nation.

Everett Hindley, provincial minister of mental health and addictions, said on Wednesday that he had met with Indigenous leaders in multiple communities to discuss ways to tackle mental health and addictions challenges, and will work with Ottawa on the matter.

We will continue to work with partners through this evolving situation, and are committed to advancing the immediate, medium, and long-term goals and needs that James Smith Cree Nation identifies. Please see below for details: <a href="https://t.co/gA11e2YNMU">pic.twitter.com/gA11e2YNMU</a>
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James Smith Cree Nation chief calls for drug treatment centres in wake of knife attacks | CBC News

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The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centres following the horrific stabbing rampage on the Saskatchewan First Nation and neighbouring town of Weldon.

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Difficulty Accessing Residential School Records 

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Over 300 First Nations gathered together to gain access to the Catholic Residential School Records which are currently being guarded. The main goal is to make the records easier for the communities to access and eliminate barriers between the Indigenous and the church.
I have really enjoyed reading the CBC journals. The author, Ka’nhehsí:io Deer, is a native of Kahnawake, covering communities across Quebec. I love how in depth the articles get into, including many interviews from locals, which US sources do not include. I highly recommend CBC to everyone.

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Accessing records is one of the biggest challenges in locating unmarked burials and identifying missing children from residential schools, survivors and experts say.

"The current systems and structures are failing us," said Kimberly Murray, special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with residential schools, in her closing remarks following the inaugural national gathering on unmarked burials.

The gathering took place Sept. 13-14 in Edmonton, bringing together over 300 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders and survivors, families, and communities that have embarked on burial site searches.

On Wednesday, four rapporteurs presented summaries of what was said and heard during breakout sessions the day before on issues related to records and archives, search technology, investigations, and protecting and accessing residential school sites. Each session heard from three experts and knowledge holders.

Tanya Talaga, an Anishinaabe journalist, was one of the rapporteurs tasked with presenting the session that asked what records are out there, what are they, and how do you access them?

"These are big questions we've been hearing a lot about so far for the last two days and I don't know if we're going to find any answers in this particular session," said Talaga.

Last year, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta formed the Acimowin Opaspiw Society to investigate possible burial sites at the Blue Quills residential school, and formed a reconciliation partnership with the Catholic Church in order to access records.

Leah Redcrow, director of stakeholder engagement for the Acimowin Opaspiw Society, talked about the steps taken to form the partnership including drafting and signing non-disclosure agreements, getting adequate data management, and getting a band council resolution.

"The goal of reconciliation partnerships is to restore harmony between the people the entities represent," said Talaga.

"Why is this a good idea? It is important to note that the Catholic Church is not compelled or required to provide records.... Each archdiocese makes that decision, and you need those records to conduct your investigations."

The records are guarded, she said, but all life events of residential school students were recorded in the parish, not the residential schools.

Representatives from the federal government and churches had an opportunity to respond to what was presented by the rapporteurs.

Marion Haggarty-France, mission advancement senior lead at the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton, also acknowledged the complicated structures of the Catholic Church.

"What we need to do is simplify some of those structures and make it much easier for our communities to access," she said.

"What we hear at events like this is that there are barriers and we've got to take them down."

Eliminating barriers

Both Rev. Carmen Lansdowne, the moderator for the United Church, and Alan Perry, general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada, said their respective churches are trying to eliminate barriers when it comes to accessing records and archives.

Lansdowne said the United Church has its Bring the Children Home initiative, where survivors, families and communities can reach out by email to request documents and information.

The church has also recently located all of its day school records and are currently researching its mission and hospital records and making those available to communities.

"We worked really hard to reduce barriers and to make things as easy as possible," said Lansdowne.

"But out of that commitment to taking a trauma informed approach, we will never proactively reach out when we have records because we need to hear from the families and the communities that they're ready."

The Anglican Church of Canada hired a researcher this year to review all files and documents, cross-referencing with cemetery records and site plans, as well as its database of children who died at residential schools.

"We'll be going through that database to make sure that there's no stone left unturned," said Perry.

Murray's office will host another gathering at the end of November in Winnipeg, with a focus on community well-being and addressing the trauma of missing children.

Janice Makokis, one of the other rapporteurs, said that at her session some people expressed concern that the gathering didn't allow enough time for questions and meaningful dialogue.

Murray said she will take it into account for the next gathering, as well as providing more space for direct participation, and incorporating more ceremony and wellness supports.

"We had an ambitious agenda for this gathering," said Murray.

"I know everybody wants more time, more opportunity to share, to learn and have your voices heard."
Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools or by the latest reports. A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for former students and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419. Mental health counselling and crisis support is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the Hope for Wellness hotline at 1-855-242-3310 or by online chat at .

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Accessing records is one of the biggest challenges in locating unmarked burials and identifying missing children from residential schools, survivors and experts say. "The current systems and structures are failing us," said Kimberly Murray, special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with residential schools, in her closing remarks following the inaugural national gathering on unmarked burials.

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After the Saskatchewan stabbings, the main suspect, 32-year-old Myles Sanderson died shortly after being brought into police custody due to the consumption of drugs. Sanderson consumed drugs shortly before being taken into custody, and quickly fell into medical distress. Due to this, there will not be a public criminal trial, which will leave the grieving families with many unanswered questions.
The Chief coroner said that in 2023, public inquests will be opened for the stabbing victims, and jurors will be asked to determine Sanderson's cause of death to determine whether CPR or Narcan was used.
I have really enjoyed CBC News. It is a Canadian news source, that has a specific tab just for Indigenous news with journalists based in the cities where these tragedies are occuring. It has a great reliability rating, and includes interview statements from locals. The author, Kendall Latimer, is also a local from Saswetchewan, and has written many other articles for CBC. and I do not feel as if I am reading biased information.

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WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
The Saskatchewan Coroners Service announced there will be a public inquest held into the deaths related to the mass stabbing in the province on Sept. 4, and a separate inquest into the death of suspect Myles Sanderson, who died shortly after being taken into police custody.

"With the suspect deceased, there will not be a public criminal trial. Without a public hearing of the facts, it will leave many questions unanswered from the families involved and the public pertaining to the circumstances leading to the deaths," said chief coroner Clive Weighill at a press conference Wednesday.

There were nine people killed on the James Smith Cree Nation and one man killed at his home in the nearby village of Weldon, Sask., on Sept. 4. Eighteen others were injured during the knife attacks.

Both of the men police identified as suspects are also dead.

Sources say Myles Sanderson consumed drugs before arrest, death

Myles Sanderson, 32, died shortly after being brought into police custody. He was pronounced dead in hospital after going into what the RCMP described as medical distress.

According to a senior government official briefed on the matter by law enforcement, Sanderson died after consuming pills just before his arrest. Multiple police, government and health sources have told CBC News he consumed drugs before police took him into custody following a highway pursuit.

The chief coroner said that details on Sanderson's cause of death will not be released until next year at the public inquest.
Saskatchewan's chief coroner says early evidence from the autopsy of Myles Sanderson indicates he did not die of blunt force trauma:
However, Weighill also said that preliminary findings have ruled out external blunt force trauma.

Photographs and videos taken at the time of Sanderson's arrest show him standing up, held against an RCMP vehicle as officers detained him.

"Shortly after being arrested, he went into medical distress," said Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of Saskatchewan RCMP, at a news conference that followed Sanderson's death.

She would not answer whether Myles Sanderson overdosed, nor whether officers attempted CPR or used Narcan, an opioid overdose reversal medication.

"All life-saving measures, that we're capable of, were taken at that point in time until the arrival of EMS shortly thereafter," she said.

Last week, Blackmore said RCMP "look forward to providing further details once they have been confirmed."

Weighill said Wednesday that officials are still waiting on toxicology and neuropathology reports, which may take several months to prepare.

Inquests to happen in 2023

The chief coroner said transparency is a priority with the public inquests, which will be overseen by a jury of six people to determine the facts.

Jurors will be tasked with determining the victims' causes of death based on evidence from witness statements and forensic reports. They will also make recommendations to prevent similar deaths in the future.

"The idea of an inquest is to be local to the people that it affects, and that they get to hear the facts and that the decisions are made from there," he said. "It is my intention to have the jury wholly comprised of Indigenous persons."

He anticipates that both inquests will happen in 2023 during spring or summer.

"It takes time to put the picture together," Weighill said. "It's prudent to make sure we have all the information, everything is gathered in a proper form and then presented at an inquest."

Weighill said the victims-focused inquest would likely happen first and that the hearing would include the death of Damien Sanderson, a man named as a suspect by police.

The 31-year-old was found dead on Sept. 5 in a heavily grassed area near a house police were examining on the James Smith Cree Nation as part of the investigation.

Police said his wounds did not appear to be self-inflicted, but little else has been released about his death.

When asked whether Damien Sanderson is now being considered a victim, rather than a suspect as initially indicated by police, Weighill said they've "made no leap to that at all."

"It's just that everything that happened was on Sept. 4, that we believe, so as the coroner I'm allowed to put all those multiple deaths into the one inquest."

As the chief coroner announced the public inquests into the deaths, he also thanked the families of the victims for their patience as police processed the numerous crime scenes.

"This was undoubtedly a heartbreaking event to witness."

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The Saskatchewan Coroners Service announced there will be a public inquest held into the deaths related to the mass stabbing on Sept. 4. There will be a separate inquest into the death of suspect Myles Sanderson, who sources say died after consuming drugs.

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This Instagram page has more than 25 links to CGC Indigenous Stories all across Canada. It is extremely easy to navigate, and when one of the tabs is clicked, it takes you to a reputable news source about the topic.
I actually started following this account once I found this page. It has a large range of information, and I have already learned so much. Although I cannot tell who is giving an opinion from this social media page, I can tell who is giving the news. Every link takes you to an article with a listed author, and background information on them.

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@cbcindigenous Lnk.Bio · link in bio - Profile and social media links for cbcindigenous

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This is the Canadian Government twitter page that posts brief, frequent updates about the Indigenous community. While it does not post constantly about frequent updates of large events, the page focuses on recognizing the event, and posting resources for those that need it.
I like this account because it is verified, which brings up its reliability rating. I also like that the posts were short, and attached links to sources for the reader to look at. This made the page easier to follow, and made it less overwhelming to try and find information about a topic. From this page, I could tell who was giving an opinion because I could see who commented and what they said, and I could also tell who reposted the post, and who liked it. I could also see who was giving the news, because it was all original posts from this account, or if they reposted a tweet, I could see whos account it came from.

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Anderson Cooper is an anchor for CNN who reports on big news events, covering nearly all major news events around the world, often reporting from on scene. He also reports from both Democratic and Republican conventions.
60 Minutes was the reason I decided to do my current event. CNN is regarded as a reliable, fact reporting source, and Anderson Cooper has won many awards throughut his career. They have even done reports about the Coast Guard on 60 minutes. I highly recommend for everyone to watch.

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CNN Profiles - Anderson Cooper - CNN Anchor - CNN

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Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, a global newscast that goes beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations.

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Deer is a journalist that I have recgonized and utilized as I have researched about my topic. I have used CBC News for almost all of my International News Sources, and I have grown to greatly enjoy this source.
Deer is a reporter from Quebec, and has Indigenous decent. While this could lead to some bias, for she feels the frustration and pain directly, I have not felt as though the information she publishes is obviously skewed.

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The Acorn is the newspaper for the town I grew up in, named Moorpark, CA. I found this article from May 7, and it was about US Representative Julia Brownley presenting $250,000 to create an Indigenous studies program at Cal State Channel Islands, a university about 20 minutes from my house. The money was given to a Chumash elder, for the Chumash once lived on the land that the school is now on. In order to ensure the curriculum is effective and accurate, the Provost and teachers have met with the Chumash Community for the overall success of the course.
Although this does not directly correlate with my current event, I do think that it is important that we are acknowledging advancements within the Indigenous community, for the Chumash were expansive on the land we now live. I do hope that in the future, however, my local paper can start expanding on prominent international issues, because it is vital that everyone educate themselves on the problems felt by many around the world.

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CULTURAL CONNECTION—U.S. Rep. Julia Brownley, center, presents a $250,000 check to California State University Channel Islands for its Indigenous studies program. Joining the representative are, from left, Eleanor Arellanes Fishburn, Raudel Bañuelos, CSUCI President Richard Yao and Jamie Ferns. Cour…

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The Ventura County Star is the newspaper of my county. The paper covers local California news, sports and entertainment. I tried finding international news, especially that pertaining to the Indigenous Communities, and I could not find any articles. I do think it is disappointing that even though this is a newspaper for local news, it is always important to add information about world news, even if it is not directly affecting the area. I was shocked to see that my local paper included more international news than my county paper. I hope that in the future, the writers can begin to add international news because it gives people perspective on different ways of life and cultural differences.

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Ventura County Star: California local news, sports and entertainment from Oxnard, Ventura and more

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The Ventura County Star is your source breaking local news, sports and entertainment news from Oxnard, Thousand Oaks, Ventura and Simi Valley, California.