Historically, Indigenous burials have been disturbed/destroyed, while settler burials are carefully avoided. It's racist & is absolutely still happening.
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“Many, many cemeteries all over our territory have been decimated by development with not much regard for remains. It’s that sort of mentality that the western culture has imposed on us,” the late Wes Modeste (Qwustenuxun) told a reporter at The Pictorial in 1994.
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