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‘We are in pain,’ NWO reacts to Kamloops discovery Written by Ryan Forbes Tuesday, Jun 01 2021, 5:00 AM Grand Council Treaty #3 Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh wears orange in honour of the 215 youth found buried at a residential school in Kamloops, BC.
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Residents across the nation and northwestern Ontario are mourning the lives of 215 Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation youth who were discovered in a mass burial at the Kamloops Indian Residential School last week.
Dryden, ON, Canada / CKDR
Jun 1, 2021 | 8:35 AM
The Minister of Indigenous Affairs stresses the provincial government supports further investigation of former Indian residential school grounds in Ontario.
Greg Rickford is responding to calls for a search of all sites in the wake of the Kamloops B.C. discovery.
The Kenora-Rainy River MPP says the province will work in partnership with the Federal Government and Indigenous communities to move the important work forward.
Rickford stresses they are committed to the calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
He says the residential school era is a dark chapter in Canada’s history, with Indigenous families and communities continuing to experience multi-generational trauma as a result of a terrible system.
Minister of Indigenous Relations, Rick Wilson, said in a statement Monday that the government intends to fund research "into the undocumented deaths and burials of hundreds of Indigenous children who did not make their way home."