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My Most Memorable Interview With a Residential School Survivor
A poet and educator talks about life in the former residential school near Kamloops as his First Nation looks at next steps.
July 16, 2021Updated 9:18 p.m. ET
Perhaps the best aspect of my job is that it enables me to meet and speak with people whose lives are far removed from mine. That sometimes includes prominent politicians, business executives, athletes and artists. But often, my most memorable interviews have been with people who are neither famous, wealthy nor powerful.
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Garry Gottfriedson, a former student at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.Credit.Amber Bracken for The New York Times
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Kel-C Jules, an Indigenous artist, teacher and model in Kamloops, poses for a photograph, Thursday, July 1, 2021. She teamed up with the owners at Overtime Apparel and Promotions to sell orange T-shirts to raise money for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
(SHANNON AINSLIE / iNFOnews.ca) July 02, 2021 - 8:00 PM Kamloops artist Kel-C Jules has teamed up with the owners of Overtime Apparel and Promotions to sell orange shirts as a fundraiser for the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. The group set up under a canopy tent on the Tk’emlups First Nation early yesterday morning, July 1, and were sold out of the shirts by noon. Jules started the fundraiser one week ago, and has raised $10,000, all of which will be sent to the survivors society head office in North Vancouver.