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The U.S. Interior Department announced on Wednesday that its investigation into Indian boarding schools has found “marked or unmarked burial sites” at 53 schools.
The conditions at the former boarding schools gained global attention last year when Indigenous leaders in Canada announced the discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops residential school of Indigenous children in British Columbia.
The discovery of the graves in Canada prompted Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whose own parents attended such schools in the U.S., to announce her agency would search the grounds of former schools to identify any remains.
Haaland said her department had once been responsible for operating 408 federal boarding schools across 37 states, or then territories, including 21 in Alaska and seven schools in Hawaii.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who is the Senate-confirmed United States Secretary of the Interior. Haaland is currently serving as the U.S. Representative for New Mexico’s 1st congressional district since 2019.
Hawaii is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland. It is the only state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics.
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. New Delhi is the capital.
It has an exceptionally diverse population, with Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other religions speaking over 21 recognised languages.
