The Walpole Island First Nation and Caldwell First Nation are joining groups across the country in mourning the discovery of a mass grave at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
Remains of 215 children found at Kamloops residential school site
Remains of 215 children found at Kamloops residential school site
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc leadership believes the missing children s deaths were undocumented By Charlie Smith
The new classroom building of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, circa 1950.
There’s been a new discovery highlighting the horrors of Canada’s Indian residential school system.
With the help of ground-penetrating radar specialists, the leadership of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc have located the remains of 215 children who were students at the now-closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC.
“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” stated Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir in a news release. “Some were as young as three years old.
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LOWER POST, KASKA DENA ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, BC, April 15, 2021 /CNW/ - Together, Canada, British Columbia and Indigenous peoples are working in partnership to deliver infrastructure projects that meet the interests and needs of Indigenous communities and help advance reconciliation for the benefit of current and future generations of all people in Canada.
Today, funding to build a new multi-purpose community building in the Kaska Dena community of Lower Post and to demolish the former residential school building was announced during a virtual event attended by Deputy Chief Harlan Schilling of Daylu Dena Council, the Honourable Marc Miller, federal Minister of Indigenous Services, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia. They were also joined by President Chad Norman Day of Tahltan Central Government, John D. Ward, Spokesperso