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At the same time, weâre burning with shame about the daily news of bodies being located in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools â 215 in Kamloops, 700 at the Marieval Residential School in Saskatchewan and 182 at St. Eugeneâs Mission School in Lower Kootenay thus far.
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While not linked in their media coverage, these events are profoundly connected. They reflect the way, as settlers on this coast, we have pillaged the natural world and violated its original inhabitants.