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Indigenous Tribes Use High-Tech Tools To Unearth Buried Crimes Of The Past

Photo of commemorative flowers on the former grounds of St. Joseph's Mission Residential School, in Williams Lake, B.C.
Cemetery on the former grounds of St. Joseph's Mission Residential School, in Williams Lake, B.C. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press/ZUMA

Indigenous groups in the U.S. and Canada are using ground-penetrating radar to look for burial sites at former schools. The technology has the potential to help a reckoning with a dark chapter in the countries’ histories.

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