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Indigenous rights activists gathered in St. Petersburg this weekend to demand action from the Catholic Church following the discovery of more than 1,000 graves filled with native children. The children were killed at schools meant to assimilate Indigenous peoples.
To the sound of a pulsing drum they marched.
Members of Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality led a group nearing 50 from a rally at Williams Park to a vigil at St. Mary Our Lady of Grace Church. The marchers wore orange to honor the children buried in the unmarked graves.
The mood was somber and acerbic.
St. Pete protesters protest Roman Catholic Church’s massacre of Indigenous children
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Nearly two dozen demonstrators gathered in St. Petersburg on Saturday to hold the Roman Catholic Church accountable for the massacre of Indigenous children. During the past two weeks, more than 1,000 unmarked children’s graves have been unearthed from Canadian residential schools, causing widespread suffering throughout the Indigenous community.
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The protesters met at Williams Park to listen to members of Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE) express the abuses their people endured then marched to St. Mary Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church to hold a vigil. There, they solemnly placed children’s toys, clothes, flowers, tobacco and candles at the front of the church, and posted a list of demands on the door.
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