Report on missing Indigenous children reveals truth: survivor

October 31, 2024

KENORA – The release of a final report on missing children and unmarked graves at former residential schools is progress, says Ed Mandamin. Mandamin, from the Treaty 3 community of Iskatewizaagegan #39 Independent First Nation, attended the Cecelia Jeffery Indian Residential School in Kenora from 1973 to 1977. Presently he is the city’s Indigenous relations adviser. “It just means another layer of history and truth has been peeled off,” he said Wednesday of the report, which was released Tuesday…