By Shari Narine  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Ground-penetrating radar work continues at Indian residential school sites across the country and more undocumented graves are being uncovered. “Undocumented” means the search is on for records that government and churches created, and in some cases destroyed, and are kept in a variety of archives and depositories and controlled by federal and provincial privacy laws. “Today we ask ourselves `how do we get the data back?” said Kimberly Murray, independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian residential schools. Last week, Murray’s office hosted a three-day conference in Vancouver to talk about Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS). “(Data) is more than records. It is knowledge. It is truth. It is history. Data is information and more. It

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