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Regional Chief puts perspective on former residential school tragedy SHARE ON: (Files by Brendan Pawliw-MyPGNow) “This confirms a lot of the stories made by survivors.” In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Report documented the deaths of at least 32-hundred children at these facilities. Teegee told  Vista Radio several First Nations leaders are now calling on governments to help search other former sites, to see if more bodies can be found. “I know other first nations are looking for...

Genocide, Mass Grave Of 215 Children Found Under Indigenous Residential School In Canada  Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh stated that Canada must "confront the reality of this genocide." The Kamloops Indian Residential School building is viewed on May 31, 2021 in Kamloops, British Columbia, as people pay tribute in memory of the 215 childrens bodies found on the residential school site. Photo: Getty Images A mass grave of hundreds of c...

Author of the article: Free Press staff Publishing date: May 30, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  2 minute read Tammy Doxtator and her daughter Joelle Mandamin place tiny shoes on the steps of St. Peters Cathedral Basilica in London on Sunday May 30, 2021. They were there for a memorial after 215 unmarked graves of children were discovered recently on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. Doxtators father was a residential school survivor and she said its permanently ...

Indigenous leaders and experts in British Columbia are calling for the protection of sites of former residential schools, warning that the bodies of 215 children found in Kamloops, B.C., likely represent just a small portion of the thousands more who died while the schools were in operation.

By ZHANG ZHOUXIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-31 07:58 Share CLOSE Canadas national flag flies at half-mast at the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria, after the remains of 215 children were discovered in a mass grave at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site, May 30, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] A mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous children, the youngest of them only 3 years old, has been found at a fo...

Ottawa - The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tkemlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with …

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

TORONTO: The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...

The reported discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops in western Canada has shocked Canadian people.

Indigenous leaders say more bodies could be uncovered.