Unmarked graves on school grounds force Canada to confront disturbing past | 7.30

The discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada has been a bitter reality check for the nation. It is feared thousands of children never returned home from the schools – now known to have been places of abuse and neglect which aimed to stamp out native culture.

Communities are now rushing to search sites where the schools once stood to find out where the missing children are buried. North America correspondent Barbara Miller reports.

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