CANADA
Leader-Post
By Jason Warick, The StarPhoenix With Canadian Press Files
February 19, 2013
Rita Custer is searching for answers about her late daughter, Monica, who died mysteriously in 1986 while attending an Indian residential school in Prince Albert.
“I want the truth for my family, but for all of the other families, too,” Custer said Monday in a telephone interview from her Pelican Narrows home.
A national report released Monday stated at least 3,000 children are known to have died during attendance at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
“As parents, this is painful, but we have the right to know how our children died (and) how many of them died,” Custer said.
While deaths have long been documented as part of the disgraced residential school system, the findings are the result of the first systematic search of government, school and other records.
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