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Indigenous chief to Trudeau: Turn over residential school records

Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Families Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir on Thursday called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Mission Oblates of Mary Immaculate to open their student attendance records “immediately and fully” so her community can identify the hundreds of children buried on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Casimir said her community’s search has only just begun, and she asked the provincial and federal governments to contribute funding and resources to help her community continue the investigation, and protect children’s remains.

Tk emlups graves report sheds light on study; further work stalled by lack of records | iNFOnews

(LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca) July 15, 2021 - 2:47 PM As the area around Kamloops becomes shrouded by wildfire smoke, the veil of colonialism was further lifted at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School today. Although oral histories told of children as young a 6 being woken up to dig graves in an apple orchard, it was in the late 1990s and early 2000s when a child s rib bone, and later a child s tooth, were found on the orchard grounds that talks of forensic and archaeological work be conducted to confirm the amount of children buried there. Indigenous leadership, including Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir, newly elected National Chief Roseanne Archibald, were present at the final report of preliminary radar detection near the grounds of the Indian residential school on July 15, 2021.

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