Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme
Cowessess to get $700,000 from feds for names on unmarked graves
Dec 15, 2021 | 11:57 AM
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The Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan is to receive more than $700,000 from the federal government to help put names to unmarked graves found at a former residential school.
In June, the First Nation discovered what could be as many as 751 unmarked graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme has said that 300 graves have been identified.
The money is to go toward research, archival and statement gathering, additional fieldwork, commemorative markers, electronic mapping of all marked and unmarked graves, and a monument.
