Finding unmarked graves put spotlight on reconciliation in 2021

Murray Sinclair, like so many other Indigenous leaders, says the discovery by First Nations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites has led to more people learning, and accepting, what survivors of these institutions experienced.

It was the ongoing resistance some people still had to believing what had happened in those institutions, he said, even after the six-volume report was released in December 2015.

Six years later, the former chair of the commission says he has noticed a change in the response.

"I can't say that it's disappeared, but it's certainly been overwhelmed by those who are now saying, `This should never have happened."'

Sinclair, like so many other Indigenous leaders, says the discovery by First Nations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites has led to more people learning, and accepting, what survivors of these institutions experienced.