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“As community leaders and elected heads of our respective First Nations and municipal governments, Chief Whitecalf, Chief Okemow, Chief Moccasin, Chief Swiftwolfe, Chief Semaganis, Mayor Leslie, and Mayor Gillan of the Battlefords Regional Community Coalition mourn the loss of 215 children at Kamloops Indian Residential School. We grieve with Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation and all other First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. We honour the memory of their stolen children and support calls to fully investigate, document and commemorate the violence of all residential school sites. “The atrocities uncovered at Kamloops Indian Residential School are by no means exceptional. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has described the operations of Canada’s residential school system as cultural genocide. Official records show 51 child deaths at Kamloops Indian Residential School in the 88 years it operated. The disparity between this number and the number of c

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