Survivors, bishop unite to witness ongoing search for unmarked graves in La Ronge, Sask.
CBC
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Myles Charles says he was a young boy when he was wrapped in a blanket and rushed outside on the night the Lac La Ronge Indian Residential School burned down.
"They had a head count," Charles recalled of that winter night in 1947. "I was sick in bed, upstairs in the dormitory, and [an old man] ran up the stairs and took me out to the ground. I'm thankful to [him] for doing that, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking to you."
Charles, a painter, is one of several community members who gathered on the former Lac La Ronge Indian Residential School site last Friday, one day after Canada marked its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
They were there to take part in healing ceremonies, share stories about the school and its impacts, and witness first-hand the latest round of searching for unmarked graves on the site.
The cemetery sits at the top of a gentle hill facing Lac La Ronge in the community of the same name, located about 380 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. Community members and school staff are buried there, according to residents.
"But we also understand there were students that didn't make it home that are buried here," said Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson. "We've been working to gain more information and understanding."
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