Officials uncovered 169 potential unmarked graves on the grounds of a former Catholic residential school in Canada, an Indigenous tribe in Alberta said Tuesday.

艾伯塔省的一个当地部落周二表示，官方在加拿大一所天主教寄宿学校的场地发现了169座疑似无名坟墓。

The Kapawe'no First Nation, which is located over 200 miles northwest of Edmonton, said the discovery was made at the former St. Bernard Mission School at the Grouard Mission site. The potential graves were identified using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and drone imagery, officials said.

位于埃德蒙顿西北200多英里的Kapawe'no原住民称，这一发现是在格鲁阿尔教会遗址的前圣伯纳德教会学校发现的。官员们说，坟墓是使用探地雷达和无人机图像识别探测出的。
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The residential school was one of several in Canada that thousands of mostly Indigenous children were forced to attend after being separated from their families between the 19th century and the 1990s. At least 150,000 Indigenous children from across the country were affected by the practice, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said.

这所寄宿学校是加拿大儿童被迫就读的学校之一，这些儿童数以千计且大多是土著，他们在19世纪至20世纪90年代期间被迫与家人分离。加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多表示，全国至少有15万名土著儿童受到这项行动的影响。

"We remember the devastation our people felt when our children were forcibly removed from their families, communities to be placed in Indian residential schools," Kapawe'no Chief Sydney Halcrow said during a news conference Tuesday. "We can start our journey of healing our identities that they fought so hard to take from us."

“我们记得当我们的孩子被迫离开他们的家庭和社区，被安置在印第安寄宿学校时，我们的人民感受到的那种被蹂躏的感觉，”Kapawe'no负责人悉尼·哈尔克罗在周二的新闻发布会上说。“我们开始恢复我们的身份认同感，这是他们努力从我们身上夺走的。”

Halcrow said information from survivors, community members and archival records indicates several children died during their time at the school. The Catholic Church opened St. Bernard Mission School in 1894 and it closed in 1961, according to Canada's National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

哈尔克罗说，来自幸存者、社区成员和档案记录的信息表明，几名儿童在上学期间死亡。根据加拿大国家真相与调解中心的说法，天主教会于1894年开办了圣伯纳德教会学校，并于1961年关闭。

The investigation to find unmarked graves of children who reportedly died at the school began in October 2021 through a joint effort from the Kapawe'no First Nation and the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology (IPIA) at the University of Alberta.

2021年10月，Kapawe'no原住民和阿尔伯塔大学草原和土著考古研究所(IPIA)共同努力开展调查，寻找据称死于该校的儿童的无名坟墓。

"Hundred sixty-nine potential graves were identified based on analysis on anomalies within the GPR data that had characteristics associated with unmarked graves," IPIA Director Kisha Supernant said.

“基于对探地雷达数据中异常的分析，确定了169个可疑坟墓，这些异常数据具有与无标记坟墓相关的特征，”IPIA主任Kisha Supernant说。

Over the course of six days, 115 potential graves were found inside the existing community cemetery where no grave markers were found, according to Supernant. Additionally, 54 potential graves were located around the school property, outside of the cemetery area.

据Supernant说，在六天的时间里，在没有墓碑标记的现存社区墓地内发现了115个可疑的坟墓。此外，54个可疑坟墓位于学校周围，在墓地区域之外。

The investigation is expected to continue in two additional phases, Supernant said.
An Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24/7 for former students and others affected at 1-866-925-4419.

Supernant说，调查预计将在接下去的两个阶段继续进行。印第安寄宿学校危机热线为以前的学生和其他相关人员提供7x24小时服务，电话号码是1-866-925-4419。

Hundreds of unmarked graves identified at other schools

在其他学校也发现了数百座没有标记的坟墓

The painful discovery of the potential unmarked graves comes after hundreds of Indigenous children's remains were found at several sites last year amid a reckoning of how Canada had treated First Nations communities.

去年，在一片给加拿大曾如何对待原住民社区算总账的气氛中，在多个地点发现了数百具土著儿童的遗骸，随后人们痛苦地发现了隐藏的无名坟墓。

Estimates indicate more than 4,000 children died while in residential schools over a period of several decades, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission wrote in a 2015 report on the legacy of the residential school system. It detailed decades of physical, sexual and emotional abuse suffered by children in government and church-run institutions.

加拿大真相与调解委员会在2015年关于寄宿学校遗产的报告中写道，据估计，在过去的几十年时间里，超过4000名儿童在寄宿学校死亡。它详细描述了几十年来，在政府和教会运行的慈善机构机构中生活的儿童所遭受的身体、精神伤害和性虐待。
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"These residential schools were created for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from their families, in order to minimize and weaken family ties and cultural lixages, and to indoctrinate children into a new culture -- the culture of the legally dominant Euro-Christian Canadian society," the report said.

“创建这些寄宿学校的目的是将当地儿童与他们的家庭分隔开，以减少和削弱他们的家庭纽带和文化连接，并向儿童灌输一种新文化——在加拿大法律层面上占主导地位的欧洲基督教社会的文化，”报告说。

In May 2021, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc community confirmed remains of 215 children who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School were found. A month later, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced the discovery of at least 750 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Mari Indian Residential School.

2021年5月，Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc社区确认，在Kamloops印第安寄宿学校上学的215名儿童的遗体被找到。一个月后，萨斯喀彻温省的Cowessess原住民宣布，在前Mari印第安人寄宿学校的场地内发现了至少750座没有标记的坟墓。