Reconciliation
Missing Children & Burial Information
76. We call upon the parties engaged in the work of documenting, maintaining, commemorating, and protecting residential school cemeteries to adopt strategies in accordance with the following principles:
i. The Aboriginal community most affected shall lead the development of such strategies.
ii. Information shall be sought from residential school Survivors and other Knowledge Keepers in the development of such strategies.
iii. Aboriginal protocols shall be respected before any potentially invasive technical inspection and investigation of a cemetery site.
According to Beyond 94, there are a few parties involved in protecting residential school cemeteries, but they do not necessarily implement all principles from this Call.
This is the last Call under this subheader; the federal government's page states it has begun discussing and collaborating with various partners regarding strategies to "gain a better understanding of the range of Indigenous family and community needs and interests and about how best to move forward" with regards to all Calls under this subheader.
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