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The Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation has confirmed that the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have been found on the reserve using . . .
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KAMLOOPS A B.C. First Nation has confirmed that the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have been found on the reserve using ground-penetrating radar.
In a news release, Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir calls the discovery an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about, but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School,” which was the largest school in the country’s Indian Affairs residential school system.
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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.