Stories and searches: How archeologists find unmarked graves at residential schools

"This is something I can contribute to my people and my culture," said archeologist Micaela Champagne.

The search for unmarked graves at the former sites of residential schools doesn’t begin with ground-penetrating radar. Or soil spectroscopy. Or electrical resistivity measurements. Or specially-trained cadaver dogs.

All those methods come later, to test and confirm each other’s evidence of what happened on — and under — this piece of land, decades ago.