Canada’s leading indigenous organization has uncovered more than 700 unmarked graves at a former boarding school, according to a statement released on Thursday (24).

At least 751 unmarked graves have been found in the land of a college administered by the Catholic Church – with government permission – for Indigenous students.

It is still unclear to whom the remains found belonged and whether they were all children.

The discovery was made in the province of Saskatchewan weeks after the remains of more than 200 children were found at a similar facility in the province of British Columbia. (see video below).

Cadmus Delorme, leader of the indigenous organization first nationtold a news conference that “oral history records indicate that there may be adults among those buried.

The investigation of the land to discover the existence of the pits began on June 2 using radar equipment.

A full report with abuses and new findings is expected to be released in early July, according to indigenous organizations in the country.

Traces found in disused residential schools reveal a history of abuse against Canada’s Indigenous population.

For more than a century, the government of the North American country has operated, with the support of the Catholic Church, schools to integrate indigenous peoples into society.

They were part of Canada’s Indigenous home school system, which had 130 boarding schools across the country.

There are reports of all kinds of abuse, with corporal punishment. Children were forbidden to speak their language or practice the culture of their people.

If they insisted on not speaking English or French, they could wash their mouths out with soap, according to some of the natives forced to attend such institutions.

Estimates by indigenous rights organizations speak of more than 6,000 deaths in educational institutions of this type.

He also requested that the Catholic Church acknowledge ‘responsibility’ and ‘part of the blame’ in running boarding schools.