Moccasins and shoes placed on the stairs of the Muskowekwan residential school to honour children in unmarked graves mbcradio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mbcradio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Editorial Yorkton This Week Finding the right words when writing an editorial is something newspapers are tasked with on a weekly basis, but sometimes it is simply impossible to find the right words to fit the situation. The news breaking last week that the remains of 215 children buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on the Tk emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in British Columbia had been discovered is such a situation. article continues below Obviously there is a great sadness that came with the announcement that 215 children taken from their parents to schools’ intent on stripping their youth of their First Nations identities, language, long hair, culture, parents all systematically stripped – would die and simply be buried on the school grounds and forgotten.
Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday morning for a prayer vigil at the last fully intact residential school building still standing in Saskatchewan a place where Indigenous culture and spirituality were once forbidden.