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The provincial government on Monday pledged $8 million in funding for Alberta First Nations to honour or research unmarked graves on sites of former residential schools on their lands.
The announcement comes after the discovery in late May of 215 children’s bodies buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C.
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Kenney said the funding is meant to honour the lives of the young people lost in the residential school system and allow First Nations across the province to determine how best to do that.