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Remains of 215 children found at Kamloops residential school site
Remains of 215 children found at Kamloops residential school site
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc leadership believes the missing children s deaths were undocumented By Charlie Smith
The new classroom building of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, circa 1950.
There’s been a new discovery highlighting the horrors of Canada’s Indian residential school system.
With the help of ground-penetrating radar specialists, the leadership of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc have located the remains of 215 children who were students at the now-closed Kamloops Indian Residential School in BC.
“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” stated Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir in a news release. “Some were as young as three years old.
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LOWER POST, KASKA DENA ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, BC, April 15, 2021 /CNW/ - Together, Canada, British Columbia and Indigenous peoples are working in partnership to deliver infrastructure projects that meet the interests and needs of Indigenous communities and help advance reconciliation for the benefit of current and future generations of all people in Canada.
Today, funding to build a new multi-purpose community building in the Kaska Dena community of Lower Post and to demolish the former residential school building was announced during a virtual event attended by Deputy Chief Harlan Schilling of Daylu Dena Council, the Honourable Marc Miller, federal Minister of Indigenous Services, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and the Honourable John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia. They were also joined by President Chad Norman Day of Tahltan Central Government, John D. Ward, Spokesperso
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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) received $2,411,773 to restructure and decolonize its digital archival records to promote innovative research meaningful to Indigenous communities.
Funding was provided through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant which will enable archivists to build a digital architecture for their archives, allowing for better access to the stories of Residential School Survivors.
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“Residential schools were a social engineering project of the federal government to basically erase Indigenous cultures from the Canadian landscape,” said Raymond Frogner, Head of Archives at NCTR in a press release.
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Robert P. Wells fulfills oath to Anishinabek elder by sharing survivors stories, recounting historic wrongs, calling for accountability
ONTARIO, CANADA, February 15, 2021 /EINPresswire.com / When he was nine years old, Robert P. Wells made a sacred promise to his friend, an Anishinabek elder named Moochum Joe, swearing to recount in paper how horribly his kind treated Native people. With Wawahte Wells fulfills this oath and shares the stories of those who survived Canada s residential schools.
His recollection is an important one that delves into a painful period of the past. Events that remain relevant, with repercussions that can still be felt today. As The Conversation reports : in January 2020, the Canadian government accepted claims from a billion-dollar settlement with survivors of the reservation schools, a settlement that came after long legal battles. It is estimated that over the years, around 200,000 indigenous children were forced