Posted: Jul 22, 2021 2:55 PM PT | Last Updated: July 22
Tk emlups te Secwepemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir co-hosted a webinar on ground penetrating radar and other remote sensing technologies, amid concerns from Indigenous people flooded with requests from companies offering the service.(Simpcw First Nation)
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Tk emlúps te Secwépemc leaders say Indigenous people across Canada have been inundated with ground penetrating radar specialist requests to survey former residential schools grounds and worry that some may be taken advantage of. Not all opportunities are created equally, said Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir during a webinar for Indigenous people and selected representatives from the media to learn more about remote sensing technologies.
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B.C. provides funding to First Nation communities for residential school searches
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A rock with the message Every Child Matters painted on it sits at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. The B.C. government says it will fund 21 First Nation communities where there were residential schools or former hospitals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER – The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals.
Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation, says each community can receive up to $475,000 for every site as it carries out searches, planning, technical work and archival research, while also engaging with elders, survivors and other First Nations that have an interest in an area.
Details surface about assumed school grave sites in Kamloops Details surface about assumed school grave sites in Kamloops By Agnieszka Ruck, Canadian Catholic News July 19, 2021
VANCOUVER The ground-penetrating radar specialist who studied the area near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has released more details about her findings.
Sarah Beaulieu, who has also used GPR to identify graves of First World War prisoners, searched two acres of land near the school, but “the total number of missing children is currently unknown,” she told a media conference July 15.
The orchard area was chosen due to “oral histories” that recall burials in that area and the discoveries of a juvenile rib bone and juvenile tooth in two separate instances in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The tooth was found during a dig on the site, and the rib uncovered by a tourist.
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