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At one North Vancouver elementary school, 215 empty chairs were placed on the playing field with cedar sprigs on the seats, at another, students arranged 215 orange ribbons.
District administrator Brad Baker became emotional while recounting the stories on Wednesday, but each of the area’s 33 schools, like many around B.C., found ways to honour the 215 children discovered buried in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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“We’re noticing two pathways right now in schools,” Baker said. “One is obviously honouring the tragedy of the 215 kids who were found at Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Two First Nations request forensic audit of Indigenous student funding
February 3, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two northern First Nation chiefs have requested a forensic audit of 20-years worth of funding for Indigenous students in the Prince George School District.
“Looking at how their system worked, we were following the dollars and some things just didn’t seem to make sense,” said Lheidli T’enneh Nation Chief Clay Pountney. “McLeod Lake said maybe we should look at a forensic audit, and we said, we support you in that, we think that’d be a good idea.”
McLeod Lake Indian Band and Lheidli T’enneh Nation joined together to request a forensic audit of all targeted Indigenous education and Local Education Agreement (LEA) funding dispersed by SD57.