Indigenous leaders praise report on Canada’s ‘disappeared’ residential school children

October 30, 2024

WARNING: This article talks about abuse of children at residential schools. Kimberly Murray has opened an uncomfortable but long overdue conversation about justice for Canada’s “disappeared” residential school children, Indigenous leaders say.  Murray, the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools, got a standing ovation Tuesday after she released her two-volume final report in Gatineau, Que. While the report spans more than 1,000 pages, Murray’s overarching finding is that children who died and were buried at residential schools aren’t missing, but were disappeared by the state….