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Saskatchewan First Nation details plan of how it will test for unmarked graves at former residential school site

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, 2023-01-12 20:53:14,

The Star Blanket Cree Nation in Saskatchewan says ground-penetrating radar has discovered possible anomalies at the site of the former Qu’Appelle residential school near Lebret, Sask., one of the longest-running residential schools in the country.HO/The Canadian Press

A Saskatchewan First Nation that announced it had discovered hundreds of subterranean “anomalies” during a search for unmarked graves is the first in almost two years of such discoveries in Canada to offer a clear blueprint to determine what definitively lies underground.

The Star Blanket Cree Nation, located about 70 kilometres northeast of Regina, said Thursday that it found a child’s jawbone on the surface and more than 2,000 underground abnormalities at the site of a former residential school. It used ground-penetrating radar, which can’t differentiate human remains from other soil disturbances.

In coming months, the First Nation said it will deploy cutting-edge DNA identification techniques to determine what, or who, lies beneath.

Axiom Exploration Group, a Saskatoon-based geology and engineering company, is set to soon begin extracting core samples from each of the 2,000 sites, much like the process used in mining exploration, and testing each sample for the presence of DNA. The method would comply with direction from elders and knowledge-keepers in the community to avoid disturbing any confirmed remains, said Sheldon Poitras, the search lead at Star Blanket.

The First Nation’s plan could provide…

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Māori cancer boy’s legacy lives on through his mum

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Māori cancer boy’s legacy lives on through his mum

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, 2022-12-14 11:35:39,

Keri Topperwien with her son Chace who died in 2012 from leukaemia. She hopes her research will help increase the number of Māori bone marrow donations. Photo / Supplied

A mum who set up a charity to support whanāu who have a child with cancer has been awarded a community research grant from the Health Research Council (HRC) to explore Māori perspectives on bone marrow donation.

Keri Topperwien (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) and her husband established the Dream Chaser Foundation following the death of their son.

Chace (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) was 3 when he died in 2012 after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, an aggressive type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

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Topperwien will use the HRC Ngā Kanohi Kitea development grant to build connections and prepare to undertake kaupapa Māori research that targets opportunities for increasing the number of bone marrow donors in Aotearoa, particularly among Māori.

“The best chance Chace had of surviving leukaemia was a bone marrow transplant to replace the cancerous cells within his bones with donated healthy marrow,” Topperwien says.

“However, unlike with blood, certain markers need to align to be a bone marrow match, meaning that Chace’s match was most likely going to be from a Māori donor. At the time, there were 26 million bone marrow donors on the international bone marrow registry, however only 6000 were Māori – but none was a match to our son.”

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30-year-old cold case cracked as Windy Point Jane Doe ID'd | Local News Stories

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30-year-old cold case cracked as Windy Point Jane Doe ID’d | Local News Stories

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, 2022-05-11 15:25:00,

July 7, 1994, rural Montrose County. Aug. 9, 1993, Lakewood, Washington.

The dates and states are far removed, but they have proven inextricably linked: the first is the day hikers found a woman’s skull on Windy Point. The second is when a 45-year-old woman was last reported alive to Washington authorities. It is now known the dates involve the same person, a woman known here for almost three decades as Windy Point Jane Doe, but who now has her true identity back.

Her name was Susan Hoppes.

Cause of death: Undetermined.

Manner of death: Undetermined, but circumstances point to homicide.

Forensic genetic genealogy, which did not exist in 1994, finally linked Montrose County’s unidentified body with a petite, dark-haired Washington State woman, who reportedly left her home in the middle of one August night.

“This is a classic piece of police work,” said Montrose County Coroner Dr. Thomas Canfield, who formally confirmed the identity Wednesday, May 11, almost 28 years after Hoppes’ remains were found. “You just keep digging and digging and digging.”

After many years of work by many hands, Montrose County Sheriff’s Office investigators got their match through a DNA sample the Colorado Bureau of Investigation prepared for a commercial DNA database, where samples from Hoppes’ brother and sister had also been uploaded.

Although the process is far from simple and does not necessarily produce instant results, the match for Hoppes was made less than two years after Sheriff Gene Lillard green-lighted sending the remains for familial DNA testing.

Hoppes’ identification was confirmed April 19 and Canfield then notified her surviving…

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