Feminists Deliver is deeply concerned by the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) decision1 to hire an international organization to advise on issues surrounding unmarked gravesites near former residential schools that were run by the colonial state of Canada.
On February 17, CIRNAC announced the signing of a Technical Arrangement2 between the Government of Canada and the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
Under the Technical Arrangement, CIRNAC will “provide approximately $2 million to the ICMP, who will conduct a cross-country outreach and engagement campaign with Indigenous communities that wish to explore options for the identification and repatriation of human remains from unmarked burial sites associated with former residential schools.”
This is a grave failure by Canada that, once again, is being paternalistic and white supremacist in how it treats Indigenous Peoples and how they have been leading the work in this area for a long time.
Read the full statement here.
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