The Canadian Indian Residential Schools were a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. Funded by the Department of Indian Affairs branch of the Government of Canada, and administered by Christian churches, the school system was created to remove and isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Unmarked graves discovered at these schools, mainly using ground-penetrating radar, potentially hold the remains of more than 1,000 previously unaccounted individuals, mostly children.