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Dozens of people wearing orange gathered at Snye Park to remember victims and survivors of the residential school system on Wednesday. The ceremony was held nearly a week after the bodies of 215 children were found on the grounds of a Kamloops residential school.
Nipi Iskwew was one of many speakers who shared her story of abuse and how the trauma of the residential schools have been passed down. Her father and grandmother were residential school survivors. She spoke about growing up in an abusive household because of her father’s unhealed trauma.
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Survivor of B.C. residential school breaking silence and calling for action
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Kamloops Indian Residential School survivor Clayton Peters, 64, who was forced into the school for 10 years, sits on the lawn at the former school, in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday, May 31, 2021. Peters parents and his brothers were also forced into the facility. The remains of 215 children have been discovered buried near the former school. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – News of the remains of 215 children being discovered at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia jolted Clayton Peters, whose seven years of torment there have been mostly encased in silence around fears of soap and strappings, a cold dark room and dreams of running away.
Molly McLeod initiated a walk to the greenhouse in Inuvik which used to be part of a the former Grollier Hall residential school as a kind of memorial.