‘More people were involved than we would like to believe’ Re: Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools , Tristin Hopper, May 29 I write from a position of sorrow, yet little surprise. As a Secwepemc person who walked the grounds as a guide in 1999 at the Secwepemc Museum, which is adjacent the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, I shared with visiting tourists the horrific stories of the school, including the numerous child.
‘More people were involved than we would like to believe’ Re: Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools , Tristin Hopper, May 29 I write from a position of sorrow, yet little surprise. As a Secwepemc person who walked the grounds as a guide in 1999 at the Secwepemc Museum, which is adjacent the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, I shared with visiting tourists the horrific stories of the school, including the numerous child.
The grounds of a former residential school in Carcross need to be searched for unmarked graves of Indigenous children, according to the president of the Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle.
From Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria to Christ Church Alert Bay, where 15 children died at the Anglican-run St. Michael’s Residential School, bells will ring in unison with 45 other Anglican churches in the diocese. “That we discovered the remains of 215 children in a mass unmarked grave at a residential school in Kamloops is a tragedy beyond words,” the bishop said in a video posted on the cathedral’s website. “We are being told, though, that some of the children in this unmarked grave were as young as three. Their death is a large enough tragedy, but even bigger than that is that their parents, their grandparents, their siblings, their aunties and uncles, their communities could not come together to mourn their loss, to honour them, to mark their graves.”