Mi'kmaq, supporters hold vigil for 215 residential school victims at Sir John A statue
About 80 P.E.I Mi’kmaq and other Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters gathered for a vigil at the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in downtown Charlottetown Monday morning after a mass grave holding the remains of children was found at a residential school site in British Columbia.
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'It’s to honour them, to honour the life that they could have had, the life that they were denied'
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Posted: May 31, 2021 10:56 AM AT | Last Updated: May 31
Jingle dancers performed while others formed a circle around the shoes, which symbolized the children buried in the mass grave in British Columbia. (John Robertson/CBC)