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Vigil honors Canadian victims, local survivors of Indigenous residential schools Posted by Katie Anastas | Jul 15, 2021 Students at the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Mt. Edgecumbe school in 1970. (Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska Anchorage Archives.) Since May, the remains of more than 1,000 Indigenous children have been found at sites of former residential schools in Canada. Petersburg residents gathered outside the municipal building Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil in their memory. As Katie Anastas reports, it was also an opportunity for local Tlingit and Haida leaders to reflect on their own family histories. Diane Benson quoted Tlingit elder Jessie Johnnie during her remarks at Wednesday’s vigil.

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