Katrina Maurice, a member of the English River First Nation in northern Saskatchewan, has a connection with the Beauval Indian Residential School site that runs deep, like many others from the area.

A lot of the parents from her community, and even people from her own generation, were forced to attend Beauval, which opened as a boarding school in 1897 and continued to operate as a residence until 1995, according to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation .

"Some of us are just learning and identifying the hurt that was caused from here," said Maurice, who works with English River's Returning Home Society as a researcher and site supervisor at the Beauval residential school site.

"We're so hurt, we don't even know we're hurt."

On Thursday, English River announced that a groun

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