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Editorial Yorkton This Week Finding the right words when writing an editorial is something newspapers are tasked with on a weekly basis, but sometimes it is simply impossible to find the right words to fit the situation.  The news breaking last week that the remains of 215 children buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on the Tkemlups te Secwépemc First Nation in British Columbia had been discovered is such a situation.  article continues below Obviously...

The provincial government and FSIN are both calling for the federal government to research undocumented deaths...

In their May 30 statement, the FSIN specifically mentioned four residential schools by name in a media statement - including the Sturgeon Landing Residential School, located about 55 kilometres due south of Flin Flon. “We’ve all heard the stories and atrocities that were part of the residential school experience. Some of us are survivors and have lived to tell our stories. However, there are many that did not make it home in Saskatchewan,” reads the FSIN statement. The FSIN specificall...

FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron. (file photo/650 CKOM) The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is leading a new investigation into unidentified remains of children at Saskatchewan’s residential schools. The announcement was made in a Sunday afternoon press release and comes on the heels of a tragic, and major finding at a Kamloops-area residential school late last week. There, the remains of 215 residential school students were found during a similar search. “The whole world is watch...

The FSIN wants all political parties and levels of governments to help them locate and identify the remains of children at residential schools across Saskatchewan.

"We must reconcile and reclaim the mass grave sites of our children from across Saskatchewan, within our Treaty Territories, in order to mourn and move…

  SASKATOON -- Following the discovery of 215 children in a mass grave at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for ground radar searches of residential schools sites in Saskatchewan. On May 27, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced the remains of 215 children had been discovered at the site of a former residential school. They were found over the Victoria Day long weekend using ground-penetrating rad...

  A call is being made to all levels of government from the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in...

Following the discovery of 215 children in a mass grave at an old residential school in Kamloops, B.C., the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for ground radar searches of residential schools sites in Saskatchewan.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Executive is calling on all levels of Government to align with First Nations in leading an investigatio...