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Dione Lerat becomes emotional remembering her relatives buried at the gravesite on Cowessess First Nation.

“I go and sit with my sister and my nephew because they died together and they were buried together,” said Lerat.

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Lerat also visits to honour her mother and father, brother and sister and baby nephew. But besides the overwhelming emotion, the site is difficult for her to visit for another reason.

“I don’t know where their graves are,” she said. “The mound that shows where the graves are has sunken into the ground.”

Sixty per cent of the graves don’t have markers. It’s also difficult to find the gravesite’s boundary because there’s no fence.

That could change in the coming years.