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history that carry lessons for the present. we begin with our story of canada's unmarked graves. in may, 2021, when archaeologists detect what had 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 had been torn down. but this school? saskatchewan still stands. its windows boarded up. its rooms gutted. 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 what 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

this reserve was 5 years old when she says she was taken from 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 over. when kids arrived at their schools, their traditional long hair was shaved off. if they tried to speak their language, they were often punished. >> they put me in ro then they take out the light. all i had to look through was this much light. like i was in jail. >> she says the abuse many kids suffered from the catholic s d physical. >> father was fondling girls >> this used to be sick bay. they used to have a bed here.

>> he would take girls into the bed. >> yeah. my cousin -- >> he took your cousin in here. 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. which canada's first prime minister supported to, in his words, sever children from the supported that mission. this report aired in 1955. >> they learn not only games and traditions, celebration of st. valentine's day but the mastery of words. ols came in part from 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. that was the guiding principle here in canada? >> yeah smoch. >> he was 6 years old when he was taken to residential school in alberta and given a new name. >> my name was number 65 for all those year 65, pick up that up, stupid. or 65, why didyes old to be cal? >> well, i think that's where the trauma begins. not just the 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 little child 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 -- so they didn't kill my spirit. >> in 2008, after thousands of school survivors filed lawsuits, the canadian government formally apologizedts it also set up a $1.9 billion compensation fund and established a truth and reconciliation commission chief little child helped lead.. >> and he 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 first day of school. >> we, as little boys, little girls, we lost our innocence. ♪ >> in 20 t c 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 of 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 schools in this former school in british columbia in may 2021. weeks later, a 751 unmarked graves were detected a former residential school in saskatchewan. there was once a catholic cemetery here, but the headstones were bulldozed in the 1960s by a priest after dispute with the former chief. and what were these lists for? >> so, it will tell -- >> 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 had been reluctant to share their records. the chief is trying to get answers. do you know 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 residential school and died in the residential school. >> the discoveries of the graves open 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've laid out a number of grids throughout this landscape. >> these archeologists say 35 unmarked graves have been discovered at this school. >> there's something going on there. that's not natural. >> we were there in october, 2021, they found what appeared to be another. according to survivor accounts, children sometimes had to dig

their classmate's graves. the priests or the school officials would force the kids to dig other children's graves? >> yep. can you imagine being 10 or 11 and digging a grave for your classmate? what that must have been like? >> keisha says the search for unmarked graves will continue for years. >> this is very emotional work. it's very devastating work. it's heart breaking for everyone who is 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 over represented in the prisons. you can draw 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, whose cree understands that pain. he was 8 years old when he was

taken to this 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. >> that's where my house was. 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. uh-huh. actually in this room here. by one of the -- one of the -- one of the boys. >> in this very room. >> this very area here. >> later he says he was also sexually molested by a nun. when he left school, he was 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. never felt it here. >> i didn't start saying i loved her until we were married about 40 years. then i was very careful how i said it. >> you didn't say to your wife for 40 years that you loved her? >> uh-huh. 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. and i still joke with my wife about that now. don't say that too loud, no. >> so you can say just don't want to say it too loud. >> yes, okay. >> it's better than nothing. >> yes, that's what she says. yeah. >> as for leona wolf, her life and the lives of her children and grandchildren have been plagued by violence and

substance abuse. intergenerational trauma, she says, that began the day her own mother was sent to school here. did you see the impact of this place on your mom? >> 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 all done to us, all of us. but it's going to stop now. you know? it is. >> you believe that? >> it is.

i'm breaking the cycle with my great grandchildren. ♪ >> leona wolf returned to her traditions as well. walking the halls of the residential school, she began to sing "hail mary" a prayer she was forced to learn long ago. ♪ now she sings it her own way. >> that's not how you sang it here when you were in school, though, was it? >> nope. >> you made peace with the virgin mary with that song. >> i made peace with myself. since our story first aired, pope francis traveled to canada for a pen ten shall pilgrimage. he apologized and begged for forgiveness for the deplorable abuses indigenous people suffered in residential schools. with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, my skin was no longer mine. my active psoriatic arthritis joint symptoms held me back. don't let symptoms define you. emerge as you.

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just off the side of the road sat a grand white house called sharswood, silently holding secrets from the past, waiting for a new owner to uncover them. sounds like the opening line of a southern gothic novel. but as we first reported in may

of last year, this story is about a real family and real house. this country's history and a man who found himself at the center of far more than he had bargained for. the man is fred miller, a 57-year-old air force veteran who was looking to buy property in his virginia hometown for his large, extended family's frequent get togethers. he had never heard the name sharswood, and yet this old house would lead him on a journey of discover with surprises and revelations that seem both impossible and inevitable all at once. these are the gentle hills of pennsylvania county, virginia, quiet, rural farm country near the north carolina border that once produced more tobacco than any county in the state. >> we're going to gather in here. >> 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. we do a lot of food competitions. >> i hear the food is mainly cake? >> yes. >> too many cakes. >> fred's cousin tawnya miller pope and his sister deborah coles told us it's a big family. fred's mother betty and his aunt brenda were one of 11. >> how many cousins? >> at least 100. >> so no wonder fred needed to find -- >> yeah. exactly. a huge place. >> 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 called me and 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 called fred. fred, this house is for sale. he's like, what house? 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 everyday as kid's on their way to school. >> what did you know about sharswood. >> absolutely nothing. >> nothing, no. >> just knew it was a big house. >> he was debating, should we put a bid for it? yes, absolutely. let's do it. >> did she twist your arm? >> all the twisting she could do. i didn't want to buy it. >> but thinking his bid would be rejected any way, 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 because i was black they would never -- surely they would never sell this house to someone this black. for us 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. >> we used to always see this house out here -- >> so in may of 2020, fred miller purchased the fully-furnished house plus 10.5 acres of land from a family called the thompsons who owned it since 1917. >> the first time i drove up to the place, all i could do is stop at the edge of the road and looked up in amazement. 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 spot from the civil war. so they would hide the valuables. >> secret hiding spot. >> 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. >> everyday she was calling me with new information. oh my goodness, okay. relax. >> are you exaggerating? >> no. >> but then karen turned up something that stunned her. in the 1800s, sharswood had been the seat of a major 1300 acre plantation. one of the larger ones in the county. what did you think of you owning a plantation? >> i was a little bit -- a little shocked by that, i would say, because i just wanted somewhere to have family gatherings. >> when i found out that it was a plantation, okay, fred, this is a plantation. we don't care. what 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 w pennsylvania county held more the. the state of virginia just under 500,000. >> 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 had been co-workers with the 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?

>> because 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 notorious difficult task for african-americans because records are hard to come by, especially before 1865. >> it really was a hobby. >> it was addicting. it was addicting. it really was. >> you're like private eyes. >> yes. >> they have been able to trace the whole miller clan back to one woman. >> it's dexter's great grandmother, it's my great, great grandmother sara. sara miller, yes. >> they had found a picture of sara miller. >> this is sara right here. >> they gotten ahold of her death certificate, which showed that she had been born in pennsylvania 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 keys. ms. keys as everyone here calls her recently turned 90. sara miller is the matriarch of the family. >> yes, she was. >> did you know her? >> yes, i did. >> well, tell us about her. >> she would always be out there with a broom in her hand and waiting for us. >> marian keys remembers her great grandmother sara as a force to be reckoned with. >> what she wanted you to know, you were going to know it. >> was she pernickty, as they say? was she difficult? stern? >> very, very. she didn't play. she didn't play. but we loved her. >> but that's where ms. keys' 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 would tell you not to discuss grown people business. that's what they'll tell you. >> the person time slavery was discussed was i guess in the '70s when roots came -- the movie "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. >> uh-huh. >> i think that was -- >> that's when we all -- >> i feel like that was an eye opener. >> but even after "roots" you didn't go and say what about our family? >> no, not at all. >> even then. what held you back? >> i didn't think they wanted to talk about it. >> but didn't you want to know. >> i would loved 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 come do research. >> we're historic preservationists and start from the idea that these places matter. >> dennis 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 running dimensions. >> but now these buildings are rare with fewer than 1500 believed to still be standing. so they started a project to search for them. >> one, two, three, four -- >> fred and karen invited them to come investigate. they examined, measured and searched for clues. >> you can see the siding -- >> they showed us some of what they found. >> these are the kind of nails that we expect to see on buildings before 1800. handmade, rot nails. >> handmade. >> you can 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. >> so this -- >> got a complex history, but we think a big part of that history was it was a quarter for aved f >> they say it's one of the best preserved they've . 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 slave dwellings. two families? >> yeah. one household here. another enslaved household over there. >> it just showed it was two different worlds. front big beautiful world here and lavish and you go right behind the house and a whole different story. it's kind of crazy for me, just to walk around out there.

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when fred miller unwittingly purchased what he now knows to be the sharswood plantation house with slave quarters just behind it, he knew virtually nothing about his own 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 sara miller, whom his mother had known about a child, piqued his interest.

ilding, just a few t her house miles away from sharswood, he asked his mother betty dixon to go there with him. >> we're walking down through here. >> betty's grandmother sara were the first of ancestors to be born into freedom shortly after the civil war. >> had no lights. no electricity. >> betty remembers visiting and spending the night here with her grandmother and cousins. >> whoa. this is one room? >> sara'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 he goes. >> sara miller is buried in the cemetery of the church the miller family still attends. >> i'm glad now i can come and see. >> yeah. >> 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 was nathaniel prince crenshaw miller and charles edwin miller. >> miller?

>> yes, miller. any lightbulbs? any wires connect? >> no, not at that point. not at that point it did not. >> others had suspected a connection between the two sets of millers. ban '8 ilthomps say had mentiot 30 years ago. >> what we had been told in high school was when they freed the slaves, they took the last name of the person that was there, which was miller. i told dexter, good chance that your ancestors came off of this farm. >> he did. he said that. >> so you knew that 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 did not tell anyone. >> dexter says he kept it to himself because he hadn't found any way to prove it. and that's where this becomes a detective story, with 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 sara 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. we didn't. >> even marian keys, who knew sara miller, had never heard their names. >> nothing. >> wow. >> sure didn't. >> i just -- i want everybody to know -- >> enter kariss lock brimmer, a local historian and genealogist. karen reached out to her to see if she could help. one of the special challenges looking for the ancestors of african-americans. >> african-americans were not listed by name until the 1870s census. so before that they were just a

number. >> if they were enslaved -- >> yes. t- >>all. >> so ly for anpe of ps and clues that you can. >> she started by looking at 1860 records for sharswood then owner n.c. for nathaniel crenshaw miller. >> there he is. >> n.c. miller right there. >> yeah. he had 58 slaves here. >> but with only age and gender listed -- >> you have enslaved people 69, 44, 34 and not a single name. >> no name. >> there was no way of knowing whether violet and david were among them. so kariss 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 kariss showed us, a very young sara miller. >> there's sara. she's 1 year old. >> 1 years old. >> this looks like emily. >> yeah. she's 3. and here is samuel. >> yeah. >> he's 5. to kariss that meant samuel, sara's older brother, was born before emancipation, so kariss surged 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 god. >> lists violet as his mother. >> it was the genealogy equivalent of a smoking gun. >> yeah. >> so this is proof that violet, sara's mother, was enslaved by n.c. miller. >> yes. >> 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. >> so did you call fred? >> i did. i don't think he believed me. >> i didn't believe her. >> so the connection suddenly is made your family, slavery, and this house. >> and this house. >> and you own it. >> once i realized that it was actually my blood that was here, took on a whole new meaning for me. it really saddens me sometimes. i'm up a lot of times wee hours of the night just thinking about what happened here. >> as news spread through the family, there was sadness. but that's not all there was.

>> i almost felt like i was losing my breath for a moment. it was almost like a feeling of being found. >> uh-huh. >> 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 -- >> can't breathe. i can't believe it that i'm in the plantation house. on the plantation that my family was enslaved. >> you're laughing as if this cannot be true. >> cannot be. that's right. but it is. >> i felt 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 a tree. i hugged the tree. and i said, oh my god, you was here when my ancestor was here. i wonder which ancestor of mine 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've been a servant to this farm and this house 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 like 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 make the sale -- >> did not make it happen, yeah. >> i tried to mess it up every angle. [ laughter ]. >> but 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? so last winter he asked bill. >> i said bill, there's one question that's been bothering me. where is the slave's cemetery? he said, dexter, it's right over there. i said, right over where? he said you see those trees over there. >> did you go right up there then? >> 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. ed is that one of -- >> that's one of them right there. >> oh my gosh. >> this is the indention right there. this headstone there, maybe a foot stone on the other end. 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. this is astonishing. >> it is. >> kind of overwhelming, isn't it? >> it is. it really is. >> i mean, we all live in this same area. we come past this place and we would not know that our ancestors were right there beside us the entire time. >> fred, if you hadn't bought that house. >> right. right. >> if i hadn't bought that house, we would never know. >> never. >> so how has all of this affected you? >> it's changed me. it's definitely changed me. >> ever angry? >> i get upset when i find out things i should have known. >> angry at yourself? >> and the system. 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. this was converted from a door to a window? >> yeah, yeah. >> fred wants to do whatever is necessary to preserve the slave house. >> yeah. this had been exposed for 200 years. >> yeah, right. >> he's in the process of setting up a nonprofit to make that possible. >> that's important to me, too. a whole lot of emphasis on that big white house. this is the story right here, absolutely. this is near and dear to me. >> this is the story. >> this is the story. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. there's eight right here. >> and he's been thinking about the cemetery, too. >> i got to 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. >> and --

>> 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 the in the first place, gathering the miller family together in celebration. ♪ happy birthday, 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? >> yeah. i'm hoping they would be proud of us. and i think they would be. they endured a lot. i mean, 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

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