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From: Indigenous Services Canada The Government of Canada provided an update on COVID-19 and Indigenous communities. 687 First Nations, Inuit and territorial communities are rolling out vaccines, and more than 508,800 doses have been administered. The news of the remains of 215 children found in the area around the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is a painful reminder of the harms families and Survivors have suffered and continue to suffer. We are profoundly saddened by this discovery...

Brandon Sun By: The Brandon Sun Save to Read Later The flags at the Brandon Police Service headquarters were lowered to half-mast on Monday to commemorate the graves of 215 children unearthed at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Advertisement The flags at the Brandon Police Service headquarters were lowered to half-mast on Monday to commemorate the graves of 215 children unearthed at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. ...

News Release Chiefs of Ontario Ontario Regional Chief RoseAnne Archibald issued the following statement in mourning of the victims at the former Kamloops Indian

An estimated 2,000 Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil Waututh children were forced into the North Vancouver residential school between 1899 and 1959

Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to examine all residential schools to see if mass graves are hidden on their grounds.

University of Saskatchewan (USask) College of Education students are helping to preserve the culture and history of the province’s oldest permanent settlement, one quilt patch at a time. . . .

Discovery of remains of B.C. residential school students shows ongoing impact of system, NAN says.

The Deputy Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation is expressing his condolences after a harrowing discovery in British Columbia. The remains of 215 Indi...

TK'EMLUPS TE SECWEPEMC - The chief of the Tk'emlps te Secwpemc calls the discovery "unthinkable".The band conf...

Students were sent to the school from as far away as Penticton, Hope, Mount Currie, Lillooet and even outside the province.