I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school

February 5, 2023

In January 2023,  the community of Wauzhushk Onigum Nation in northwestern Ontario confirmed the discovery of evidence of 170 “plausible burials” at a former residential school site, following a round of ground-penetrating radar searches that detected the anomalies. It was same residential school that Vivian Ketchum’s late mother…