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tonight, revisiting the past. we'll look at stories from history that carry lessons for the present. we begin with our story of canada's unmarked graves. in may 2021, when archaeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history. starting in the 1880s and much of the 20th century, more than 150,000 children from hundreds of indigenous communities across canada were forcibly taken from their parents by the government and sent to what were called residential schools. funded by the state and run by churches, they were designed to assimilate and christianize indigenous children, by ripping them from their parents, their culture, and their community.

the children were often referred to as savages and forbidden from speaking their languages or practicing their traditions. as anderson cooper first reported last year, many were physically and sexually abused, and thousands of children never made it home. >> the last of canada's 139 residential schools for indigenous children closed in 1998. most have been torn down. but the muskowekwan school still stands. a reminder to a nation that would rather forget, a three-story tombstone for generations of children who died here. >> sometimes i wish it would be gone for all that happened here. >> you wish this had been torn down? >> yeah. i could hear everything in here, what was done. it lingers. >> leona wolf, who comes from

the muskowekwan reserve was 5 years old when she said she was taken from her home in 1960. school officials and police would often show up unannounced in indigenous communities and round up children, some as young as 3. parents could be jailed if they refused to hand their children over. when skutudents arrived, their traditional long hair was shaved off. if they tried to speak their language, they were punished. >> they put me in a dark room like that, they shut the door and take off the light. all i had to look through was this much light like i was in jail. >> she said the abuse many kids suffered from the catholic priests and nuns wasn't just physical. >> father joyal was fondling the girls here. >> father joyal was fondling the kids here? >> yeah, they used to have a bed here. >> and he would take girls into

the bed. >> yes. my cousin. >> he took your cousin. how old was she? >> she was only 8. i grew up a very, very mean woman because of all what happened to me. >> you learned that here, you think. >> yeah. >> she is not the only one. more than 150,000 children were sent to residential schools, which canada's first prime minister supported to, in his words, sever children from the tribe and civilize them. for much of the 20th century, the canadian government supported that mission. this report aired in 1955. >> they learn not only games and traditions, such as the celebration of saint valentine's day, but the mastery of words. >> the idea for the schools came in part from the united states. in 1879, the carlisle indian industrial school opened in pennsylvania, where this photo was taken of native american children when they first arrived.

this is them four months later. the school's motto was, kill the indian, save the man. >> consequently, ours was, kill the indian in the child. >> kill the indian in the child? >> mm-hm. >> that was the guiding principle here in canada? >> yeah. >> chief wilton littlechild, who is cree, was six years old, when he was taken to this residential school in alberta. then, he says, he was given a new name. >> my name was number 65 for all those years. >> just a number? >> just a number, yeah. 65, pick that up, stupid. or 65, why did you do that, idiot? >> what does it feel like at six years old to be called a number? >> i think that's where the trauma begins. not just physical abuse. psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, and worst of all, sexual abuse. >> you were sexually abused? >> yes. i think that's where my anger

began, as a young boy. >> chief littlechild says he was able to take some of that anger out on the school's hockey rink. he won a scholarship to university and graduated, eventually going on to a distinguished career in law. but his story is the exception. >> they didn't kill my spirit, so i'm still cree. i'm still who i am. i'm not 65. my name is -- they didn't kill my spirit. >> in 2008, after thousands of school survivors filed lawsuits, the canadian government formally apologized for its policies. it also set up a $1.9 billion compensation fund, and established a truth and reconciliation commission that chief littlechild helped lead. for six years, the commission heard testimony from survivors across the country. >> and you put me under water, slapping me and hitting me,

slapping me and hitting me and punching me and punching me and holding me under water, pulling my hair. and i thought, god, she's going to kill me. i'm going to die the first day of school. >> we, as little boys and little girls, we lost our innocence. >> in 2015, the commission concluded what happened was cultural genocide. it identified more than 3,000 children who died from disease due to overcrowding, malnutrition, and poor sanitation, or died after being abused or trying to run away. a government study in 1909 found the death rate in some schools was as high as 20 times the national average. most schools had their own cemeteries. and sometimes, when children died, their parents were never informed. >> it's really traumatic for

those families who don't know what happened to their child or relative in the schools. >> why weren't kids who died at the schools, why weren't they sent home? >> to save money. >> archaeologists detected what they said could be 200 unmarked graves at this school in camp loop -- kamloops, british columbia, may, 2021. there was once a catholic cemetery here, but the headstones were bulldozed in the 1960s by a priest after a dispute with the former chief. >> and what were these lists for? >> a small team of researchers has been trying to discover the names of those children buried here. but for decades, the government and the church have been reluctant to share their records. >> do you know that they're all children?

>> we can't verify how much are children, but based on the research we're doing, a lot of them were children that were forced to go to the marieval residential school and died in the marieval residential school. >> the discoveries of the graves opened deep wounds. more than a dozen churches have been vandalized or destroyed, and thousands have marched, demanding the pope apologize and the churches open archives to help identify any missing children. indigenous communities across the country have begun conducting their own searches using ground penetrating radar. >> we have laid out a number of graves. >> archeologist kisha supernant and terry clark say 35 unmarked graves have been discovered at the muskowekwan school. >> there's something going on there. that's not natural. >> we were there in october 2021, they found what appears to be another. according to survivor accounts, children sometimes had to dig their classmates' graves.

>> the priests or the school officials would force the kids to dig other children's graves? >> yeah, can you imagine being 10 or 11 and digging a grave for your classmate, what that must have been like? >> kisha supernant says the search for unmarked graves will continue for years. >> this is very emotional work. it's devastating work. it's heartbreaking for everyone involved. >> you feel that too. >> i do. our communities still feel the impacts of these institutions in our everyday lives. we're way overrepresented in child welfare and adoptions and foster care. we're way overrepresented in the prisons. you can draw a direct line with that to these places. and the pain of that that has been passed on from generation to generation. >> i started school here in 1958. >> ed bitternose, who's cree, understands that pain. he was eight years old when he was taken to the muskowekwan

school. his parents lived within sight of the school. and when he tried to run away, he says the priest forced him to kneel on a broom handle for three days. >> i would sit here and wonder why i couldn't be home. >> that must have been devastating. >> yeah. >> it wasn't only adults he feared. some students themselves, victims of abuse, preyed on other children. >> were you abused here? >> yep, actually in this room here by one of the boys. >> in this very room? >> this very area here. >> later, he says he was also sexually molested by a son. when he left school, he was rudderless and violent and turned to alcohol. when he got married, he says he didn't know how to show affection. >> you didn't know what love was?

>> no, no. i never felt it here. i didn't start saying i loved her until we were married about 40 years. and then i was very careful how i said it. >> you didn't say to your wife for 40 years that you loved her? >> mm-hm, yeah. >> he says his life changed when he began rediscovering his cree culture, raising buffalo and sharing traditional knowledge with children brought healing and finally an understanding of the word love. >> you can say that now? >> i can say that now. and it feels good. i still joke with my wife about that, don't say that too loud. >> so, you can say it. you just don't want to say it too loud. >> yes. uh-huh. >> you know what? it's better than nothing. >> that's what she says. >> as for leona wolf, her life and the lives of her children and grandchildren have been plagued by violence and substance use. intergenerational trauma, she

says that began the day her own mother was sent to school at muskowekwan. see t impt of this pce on yeah. >> how? >> by drinking a lot, being mean to me. and it impact us, me and my brother and my siblings. >> what was done to her, she passed on to you. >> to me. >> and what was done to you and others here -- >> was passed on to my children. this is why sometimes i go into my rage of anger and i cry. because it was done to all of us. but it's going to stop now. you know? it is. >> you believe that? >> i'm breaking the cycle with my great grandchildren. ♪ hail mary full of grace ♪ >> leona wolf has returned to her traditions as well.

walking the halls of muskowekwan, she began to sing "hail mary," a prayer she was forced to learn here long ago. now, she sings it her own way. ♪ hey-a, hey-a ♪ >> that's now how you sang it here while you were in school here. >> nope. >> you made peace with the virgin mary singing that song. >> yeah, and i made peace with myself. since our story first aired, pope francis travelled to canada for what he called a pilgrimage. he apologized and begged for forgiveness for the deplorable abuses indigenous people suffered in residential schools. in 99% of people over 50. it's lying dormant, waiting... and could reactivate. shingles strikes as a painful,

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pittsylvania county, virginia, a rural county near the north carolina border that once produced more tobacco than any county in the state. fred miller grew up here in a close family that likes getting together regularly for birthdays, fish fries, and as his cousin adam miller told us, just about anything. >> we play games, a lot of food competitions. >> i hear the food is mainly cake. >> too many cakes. >> fred's cousin, tonya miller pope, and his sister, debra coles, told us it's a big family. fred's mother betty and his aunt brenda were two of 11. >> how many cousins? >> hundreds. >> so, no wonder fred needed to find a place. >> exactly. >> fred lives in california,

where he works as a civil engineer for the air force. but he visits the family in virginia often. >> one day out of the blue, my sister told me about a big house up the road for sale. >> this sister right here? >> yeah. >> karen dixon, fred's baby sister, had spotted it. >> me and my mom was riding past the house, and i saw the for sale sign. i said, oh, my goodness, we have to get this house. i said, fred, this house is for sale. he said, what house? i said, you know the house. the scary house, i call it. >> the scary house was less than a mile up the road from their mom's. they passed it every day as kids on their way to school. >> what did you know about sharswood? >> absolutely nothing. >> just knew it was a big house. >> he was debating, should we put in a bid for it? i said, yes, absolutely. let's do it. >> did she twist your arm? >> took all the twisting she could do. i didn't want to buy it.

>> but thinking his bid would be rejected anyway, he made an offer of just above the $220,000 asking price. >> why did you think they weren't going to accept the offer? >> well, i mean, initially to me i thought that because i was black, they would never -- surely they would never sale this house to somebody that's black. so, for us to be able to own this thing, i thought it would never happen in a million years. >> so guess what happened? a million years. >> a million years. >> yes, yes, absolutely. >> so, in may of 2020, fred miller purchased the fully furnished house plus ten and a half acres of land from a family called the thompsons, who had owned it since 1917. >> first time i drove up to the place. all i could do was stop at the edge of the road and just look up in amazement like, wow, this is mine. >> this is an original room from the 1800s. >> karen says she got obsessed

with the house, spending nights and weekends online researching its secrets. >> hiding spots they say from the civil war. so, they would hide their valuables. >> secret hiding spots. >> yes, secret hiding spots. >> she discovered the house had been built around 1850 in the gothic revival style by a well-known new york architect. and she learned and told her family that its name had been sharswood. >> every day she was calling me with new information. i'm like, oh, my goodness, okay. relax. >> are you exaggerating? >> no, i'm not exaggerating at all. >> but then karen turned up something that stunned her. in the 1800s, sharswood had been the seat of a major 1,300 acre plantation, one of the larger ones in the county. >> what did you think of you owning a plantation? >> i was a little bit -- little shocked by it, i would say,

because i just wanted somewhere to have family gatherings. >> when i found out it was a plantation, and i'm like, fred just bought a plantation? >> i was like, we own it now. what are we going to do? >> so, it was just a feeling of power. it was just a powerful feeling. >> it is. >> powerful. but of course, plantation implies slavery. and before the civil war, the pittsylvania county held more than 14,000 enslaved people. the state of virginia, just under 500,000. >> i said, do you realize what this is? they didn't have a clue. >> dexter miller, one of fred and karen's many second cousins, knew something about sharswood because years ago, he'd been coworkers with bill thompson, whose family then owned it. bill joined us for a conversation on what used to be his childhood porch. >> you grew up in this house? >> i did.

this was my home. >> he inherited much of the farmland and still lives up the road. his sister inherited the house and sold it to fred. >> you know, when fred was buying the house, he did not think that the house would be sold to a black person. >> why would you think that, fred? >> probably because, you know, we're in rural virginia, right? >> well, this is true. >> for years, dexter and another second cousin, sonya womack miranda, had been trying to piece together the miller family's origins, a notoriously difficult task for african americans because records are hard to come by, especially before 1865. >> it really was a hobby. >> it was addictive. it was addictive. it really was. >> we were like private eyes. >> yeah. >> they'd been able to trace the whole miller clan back to one woman. >> it's dexter's great grandmother.

it's my great, great grandmother, sarah. >> sarah miller. >> yes. >> they had found a picture of sarah miller. >> this is sarah right here. >> and they'd gotten hold of her death certificate, which showed that she'd been born in pittsylvania county in 1868, just three years after the end of the civil war. and they found an even better resource, one of their oldest living relatives, a beloved former schoolteacher named marian keyes. ms. keyes, as everyone here calls her, recently turned 90. >> sarah miller was the matriarch of the family. >> yes, she was. >> did you know her? >> yes, i did. >> tell us about her. >> she would always be out there with a broom in her hand and she would be waiting for us. >> she remembers her great grandmother, sarah, as a force to be reckoned with. >> what she wanted you to know, you were going to know it. >> was she persnickety, as the

sa>> dif? >>. s?>>ery. she didn't play. she didn't play. but we loved her. >> but that's where ms. keyes knowledge of miller family history ended. she didn't know anything about the generations before emancipation. >> when you were growing up, what did you learn or hear from your parents about slavery? >> nothing. >> nothing? >> nothing. they did not talk about it. i don't know whether they were afraid, whether it was too miserable or painful or they wanted to forget it. i don't know. but they did not talk to us about it at all. and we didn't ask them questions about it. >> why not? >> we were afraid to. >> we heard that again and again from members of the miller family. >> slavery wasn't mentioned at all. >> was there almost a code, we don't talk about slavery, so nobody did?

>> it was something that every black person knew you didn't talk about. the parents tell you not to discuss grown people business. that's what they tell you. the first time slavery was discussed was i guess in the '70s when "roots" came about. >> that's the first time? when "roots" was on television? did you read about it in school? >> not much. >> his family also remembers "roots" as pivotal. >> yes. >> i think that's -- >> that's when we all -- >> that was an eye opener. >> even after "roots," you didn't go and say, what about our family? >> no. >> not at all. >> what held you back? >> i just didn't think they wanted to talk about it? >> didn't you want to know? >> i would love to have known. i would love to have known. >> fred's purchase of sharswood was about to give him a crash course in his hometown slavery roots. it started with a call from two archaeologists who wanted to do research.

>> we start from the idea that these places matter. >> dennis pogue once worked at mount vernon, doug sanford at monticello. they asked if they could come explore sharswood. but they weren't interested in the ornate house designed by that famous architect. what they cared about was the dilapidated building with the tin roof past the big oak tree behind it. they suspected it had once been slave quarters. >> there were once hundreds of thousands of these buildings. these were one of the most common types of architecture in virginia. >> let me give you the dimensions. >> but now these buildings are rare, with fewer than 1,500 believed to be still standing. and pogue and sanford started a project to search for them. >> so, one, two, three, four -- >> fred and karen invited them to come and investigate. they examined, measured, and

searched for clues. >> you can see the siding is -- >> they showed us some of what they found. >> these are the kind of nails that we expect to see on buildings before 1800. hand made wrought nails. >> hand made. >> you can actually see the hammer strokes on the head. >> is this the original siding? >> these are remnants of the original siding, absolutely. >> they worked from noon to dusk and finally gave karen and fred their conclusion. >> it's got a complex history, but we think part of that history, a big part of that history, was a quarter for enslaved folks. >> they say it's one of the best preserved they've seen. they believe it was originally built in the late 1700s as a house for a white family. >> that's where the original door was. >> and was later divided into two separate single-room sla dwlings. woamil eah. one household here, another enslaved household over there.

>> it was two different worlds. this big, beautiful world here. lavish. and you go right behind the house, and it was a whole different story. it's kind of crazy for me just to even walk around out there. >> do you own that? do you own the slave house too? >> i own the slave house too. i do. that's mine. >> wow. >> fred miller's purchase continues to surprise his family and intrigue historians. when we come back. scottie scheffler shot a final round 65 to take the title for the second consecutive year, winning by two shots over canadian nick taylor. today in the nba, the eastern conference leading celtics beat the grizzlies. meanwhile the raptors defeated the pistons.

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when fred miller unwittingly purchased what he now knows to be the sharswood plantation house with slave quarters behind it, he knew virtually nothing about his family history. he always assumed his ancestors had been enslaved, but it felt to him like an unknowable part of a distant past. learning about his great grandmother, sarah miller, who his mother had known as a child, piqued his interest. so, when he found out her house was still standing just a few miles away from sharswood, he asked his mother, betty dixon, to go there with him. >> we're going to walk down through here. >> eddie's grandmother sarah had been the first of the ancestors m sh after the civil war. >> no light, no electricity. >> betty remembers visiting and

spending the night here with her grandmother and cousins. >> whoa. what is it, one room? >> sarah's house didn't look much bigger than the slave dwelling, just a single room with a smaller one above it. and no indoor plumbing. >> come a long ways, huh? >> sure did. >> glad i didn't have to live in here. >> well, had to make it work. >> you want a piece of this wallpaper to take with you? >> yeah. >> hope the landlord don't say nothing. >> oh, lord. there you go. >> sarah miller is buried in the cemetery of the church the miller family still attends. >> i'm glad now i can actually come in and see this. >> but unbeknownst to this miller family, just five miles up the road in a different church cemetery, was a tombstone that also read miller, a far older one with names fred and his family had never heard of

but were about to. in karen's search for information about sharswood, she found a document that mentioned them. >> it gave the names of the original owners, who were nathaniel crenshaw miller and charles edwin miller. >> miller? >> yes! miller. >> any light bulb? any wires connect? >> no. not at that point. it did not. >> others had suspected a connection between the two sets of millers. >> i was telling dexter back in '88 -- >> bill thompson says he had mentioned to thought to dexter 30 years ago. >> we had been taught in high school is when they freed the slaves, they just took the last name of the person there, which was miller. i said dexter, there's a good chance your ancestors came off this farm. >> he did, he said that. >> you knew this was a plantation? >> i did.

>> fred, you said you didn't know. >> i had no idea. >> dexter, you didn't tell fred. >> i did not tell fred. i didn't tell anyone. >> dexter says he kept it to himself because he didn't have any way to prove it. that's where this becomes a detective story where the miller cousins now on a mission to figure out whether it could be possible that their own ancestors might have been enslaved on the very property fred now owned. the first step was figuring out who their last enslaved ancestors were. and sarah miller's death certificate held the answer. the names of her parents, david and violet miller, who would have been adults at the time of emancipation. >> did you know anything about them? >> not at all. not at all. i didn't know anything about them. >> even marian keyes, who knew sarah miller, had never heard their names.

>> nothing. >> wow. >> sure didn't. i want everybody to know. >> enter karice luck-brimmer, a local historian and genealogist. karen reached out to her to see if she could help. >> what are the special challenges looking for the ancestors of african americans? >> african americans were not listed by name until the 1870 census. before that, they were just a number. >> if they were enslaved, they weren't listed -- >> at all. so really you're just looking for any type of tips and clues that you can. >> she started by looking at 1860 records for sharswood's then owner, n.c. for nathaniel crenshaw, miller. >> there he is. n.c. miller. >> he had 58 slaves here. >> but was only age and gender listed -- >> you have enslaved people 69,

44, 34. and not a single name. >> no name. >> no way of knowing whether violet and david were among them. so karice looked up david and violet miller in the 1870 census, the first one after the civil war where they finally appeared by name. it showed they were farm hands, that they couldn't read or write, and it listed their children, including, as karice showed us, a very young sarah miller. >> there's sarah. she's 1 year old. >> and this looks like emily. >> yeah, she's 3. >> and here's samuel. >> yeah. >> he's 5. >> to karice, that meant samuel, sarah's older brother, was born before emancipation. so karice searched for him in another historical record called the virginia slave birth index,

where slave owners had to list births on their property. >> this document -- >> and there, under n.c. miller's name -- >> n.c., right. >> and there's samuel. >> was samuel. >> and look at that. >> oh, my word. >> violet as his mother. >> it was the genealogy equivalent of a smoking gun. >> this is proof that violet, sarah's mother, was enslaved by n.c. miller. >> yes. >> and this is absolute proof. >> this is absolute, definite proof. >> you were able to tell karen that her ancestors, david and violet, were enslaved at sharswood. >> that was tough. >> did you call fr? did. i don't think he believed me in the beginning. >> i didn't believe her. >> so the connection suddenly is made with your family, slavery,

and this house. >> and this house. >> and you own it. >> once i realized it was actually my blood that was here, took on a whole new meaning for me. it really saddens me sometimes. a lot of times i'm up in the night thinking about what happened here. >> as news spread through the family, there was sadness, but that's not all there was. >> i almost feel like i was losing my breath for a moment. it was almost like a feeling of being found. >> yes. >> this is where i started. and as black people, we don't always know where we started. >> so here we are sitting in this house. >> i can't believe this. that i have a plantation house. the plantation that my family was enslaved. >> you're laughing as if this cannot be true. >> that's right. but it is.

>> i feel complete. >> wow. >> i'm not half of a human being anymore. they make me whole. even if i don't know them. i felt a connection to them at sharswood. >> i touched the tree, i hugged the tree. and i said, oh, my god, you was here when my ancestor was here. i wonder which ancestor might have touched the tree. i didn't know what to say or do. i just hugged the tree. and felt like i'm home. >> he shared the news with bill thompson, who had had that hunch all those years ago. >> i look at it that i have been a servant to this house and this farm my whole life. and for the miller family to come back home to my home, our home -- >> our home, absolutely.

>> it's great. it's a celebration of coming home. >> this is god. this is where we're supposed to be. it's like a full circle, like it was meant to happen. to me, it was meant to happen. >> the millers also see the hand of their ancestors in all of this. >> i think it had to be. i did everything in my power to -- >> to not make it happen. >> i tried to mess it up at every angle. >> with those ancestors had one more surprise in store, with all the revelations, there was one question that continued to gnaw at dexter. where were his enslaved ancestors buried? last winter, he asked bill. >> i said will, one question that's been bothering me. where is the slave cemetery? he said dexter, it's right over there. i said right over where?

he said you see those trees over there? >> did you just go right up there? >> we went right up there. >> the trees bill thompson pointed to just beyond fred's property sure didn't look like a cemetery. that is until you start to look closely. >> is that one of them? >> that's one of them right there. >> oh, my god. >> you can see this is the indention right there, the headstone, maybe a footstone on the other end. it seems like one there. absolutely. >> poking up through the leaves all around us were pointed rocks. some small, some medium sized. no names, no engraving. just plain anonymous markers of many, many lives. >> wow. astonishing. >> it is. >> kind of overwhelming, isn't it? >> it is. it really is. >> i mean, we all live in the same area.

we come past this place and we would not know our ancestors were right beside us the entire time. >> fred, if you haven't bought that house -- >> right. >> if i hadn't bought the house, we would never know. >> never. >> so how has all of this affected you? >> it's changed me. >> are you ever angry? >> i get a little upset sometimes when i find out things i should have known already. >> angry at yourself? >> at myself and at the system because i think we should have known more. >> what about the school system? >> should have known more. >> family? >> should have known more. absolutely. >> you want the story of slavery told. >> i want the story of slavery told. it's important. >> converted from a door to a window? >> yeah. >> fred wants to do whatever is necessary to preserve the slave house. >> yeah, this has been exposed for 200 years. >> he's in the process of setting up a nonprofit to make that possibhat'ortanto ,ot of e

big white house. this is really near and dear to me. this is thestory. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -- there's eight right here. >> he's been thinking about the cemetery too. >> i can imagine this being someone young. >> we have to do something about this. >> yeah, have to. and i will. i'm going to fix it. >> do you think you might allow historians to come? >> absolutely. this place will be open to anyone who wants to learn. >> anyone? >> anyone can come here. >> but for now, sharswood is serving the purpose fred bought it for in the first place. gathering the miller family together in celebration. ♪ happy birthday to ya ♪

♪ happy birthday to ya ♪ ♪ happy birthday happy birthday to ya ♪ >> what do you think violet and david would think if they could see that you own this place? >> i'm hoping they would be proud of us. i think they would be. they endured a lot. i can't even imagine what they went through. looking down on us now. they must be smiling at us. >> since our story first aired, fred miller took a new job in virginia to be closer to his family. he has set up a nonprofit sharswood foundation to maintain the slave quarters and cemetery and has begun offering tours of the house. >> watch the millers visit the sharswood slave cemetery for the

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