According to this article from the Associated Press, "the [US] federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to 'uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences' of policies that over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday." 

The recent  discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada has prompted the question: "Are there similar burial sites at U.S. Indian boarding schools?," says this article from Indian Country Today.

This article from Express Informer describes the intergenerational impacts of the trauma experienced by Indigenous children in Canada's residential schools.

"The discovery of an unmarked grave holding the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children, including one possibly as young as age 3, has shaken Canada," says this article from the Christian Science Monitor.

"Indigenous Canadians are mourning the loss of 215 children whose remains were found in a mass grave at a former residential school in British Columbia," says this article from KUOW.

"Unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 children have been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people," says this article from BBC News.

"The discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in British Columbia prompted outpourings of grief and questions as efforts to identify the students began," says this article from the Washington Post.

According to this article from CBC News, "Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday."

In Vancouver, Western Canada, 60 agencies and 20 youth from government care are working in partnership using a collective impact approach to address the systemic issues and barriers to healthy development that youth from care experience. This mixed-method evaluation included quantitative and qualitative data, collected through outcomes, diaries, surveys, and focus groups, to measure process and outcomes.

"The Ontario government is engaging youth with lived experience to help develop a new framework that would see youth transition out of the care of children’s aid societies when they feel ready and better prepared," says this news release from the government of Ontario, Canada.