Premier Caroline Cochrane told the N.W.T. legislature Monday that she wanted to find the territory's lost children "as soon as she saw the news" but that it is not the place of the territorial government to decide what to do next.
In the wake of the find announced by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in B.C., survivors, Indigenous leaders and faith leaders are calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize and take responsibility for the atrocities committed against children, families and communities in the residential school system.
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.
TORONTO The head of a First Nations organization in Saskatchewan says ground searches will soon be underway at the 22 residential schools in that province, as calls for a similar effort to take place across the country grow louder. Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, says that conversations with Premier Scott Moe and federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller resulted in an agreement to conduct the searches at all residential schools in the province. They re committed to working with us and getting this done for our families and survivors, he told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.
Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative
The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School announced last week by the Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder. Six years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools levelled 94 Calls to Action, few of them have been completed.
(LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca) June 01, 2021 - 6:30 AM The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, announced last week by the Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder.