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It’s been six weeks since the Chief of the Tk’emlups band in Kamloops, B.C. announced that 215 unmarked graves were found using ground-penetrating radar on the grounds of a former residential school. On May 27, the band said that a preliminary report would be released in mid-June.
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It’s now mid-July, and a report has yet to be released and emails from the Sun inquiring about the media did not receive a response.
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Solar lights twinkled Saturday evening next to 751 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school at the Cowessess First Nation.
Mann Northway GM in Prince Albert donated the lights in part to show support for employee Kevin Friesen who is also a member of the Cowessess First Nation. Friesen drove to his home reserve with the lights for a special vigil Saturday night and a moment of silence at 7:51 p.m.. A teepee has also been erected at the site and a fire will burn for four days.
(Submitted photo/Kevin Friesen)
Friesen told
paNOW to see all the flags marking the graves and to lay the lights down was overwhelming.
Members of the community place solar lights next to the flags which mark the spots where remains were discovered by ground penetrating radar at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation, Sask., on June 26, 2021. Photo by GEOFF ROBINS /AFP via Getty Images
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COWESSESS FIRST NATION Members of the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan spent Saturday morning placing solar-powered lights next to each of the 751 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school.
A vigil was planned for later in the evening and a moment of silence was scheduled for 7:51 p.m.
COWESSESS FIRST NATION Members of the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan spent Saturday morning placing solar-powered lights next to each of the 751…