"The students who did not return have come to be known as the Missing Children."

[stopdiggin]

3. I don't quite understand

there was zero accounting or record of these 'deaths?' Or the remains were just not repatriated to parents and community? Notification?

(Don't even Catholic institutions have to record deaths?)

Edit:

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) noted that large numbers of Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools never returned to their home communities. Some children ran away and others died at the schools. The students who did not return have come to be known as the Missing Children. The Missing Children Project documents the deaths and the burial places of children who died while attending the schools. To date, more than 4,100 children who died while attending a residential school have been identified.

This is still pretty disconcerting. Unmarked or undocumented burials?