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April 11, 2024
Ahousaht First Nation releases findings from search for missing residential school children
Likely and potential unmarked grave locations found at schools Jackie McKay · CBC · WARNING: This story contains distressing details CBC Indigenous: Posted: Apr 10, 2024 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago ʕaaḥuusʔath (Ahousaht) First Nation released the findings from the first phase of its search for missing children who attended two residential schools in...
March 7, 2024
Knowledge event held to share lessons learned in search for unmarked graves at residential schools
“I want to share this with our allies: As well intentioned as you are, it’s important that you work in delicate way on this and know your lane. Don’t become experts of our misery.” —Eugene Arcand Dr. Kisha Supernant, a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Missing Children and Unmarked Graves in relation...
February 29, 2024
Senate committee hears from information commissioner on residential schools records access
Guidance on information disclosure ‘comes from the top,’ says Caroline Maynard CBC Indigenous: A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe...
February 20, 2024
Canada needs legislation to protect historical Indigenous burial sites: Winnipeg conference
Absence of national laws ‘simply unacceptable,’ MKO grand chief says CBC Indigenous: A Manitoba First Nation and an advocacy group are hosting a conference in Winnipeg this week to discuss the need for national legislation that would protect Indigenous ancestral remains and belongings in Canada. The Protecting our Ancestors conference is hosted by Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak...
February 1, 2024
‘No one will ever take my grandchildren again, ever’: Gathering hears from residential school survivors
By Jeff Pelletier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nunatsiaq News NationTalk: The Standard, Nunatsiaq News – On the second day of the National Gathering on Unmarked Burials in Iqaluit, survivors of residential schools and tuberculosis sanitoriums shared their stories and the pain and uncertainty of not knowing where their family members are buried. The conference, at the...
November 29, 2023
After concerns, Ottawa pauses work on $2M contract for help on unmarked graves
Some of the artwork memorializing the unmarked graves discovered in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation. Photo: APTN APTN News: The Candian Press – The federal government has paused and plans to rework a $2-million contract with an international group hired to provide advice on identifying and locating the unmarked graves of children who attended residential schools....
November 28, 2023
Educate or prosecute? Two Anishnaabe weigh in on how to deal with residential school deniers
Ottawa looking at different legal mechanisms it could deploy to address issue WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. CBC Indigenous: “It wasn’t that bad, they got an education out of it.” Michael Eshkawkogan says he’s seen that exact comment and others like it when scrolling on social media. No one has...
October 30, 2023
Cadaver dogs searching for unmarked graves at former Kenora residential school site uncover 22 ‘alerts’
The alerts in addition to 171 plausible burial sites detected at former St. Mary’s site in January Warning: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation in northwestern Ontario says cadaver dogs conducting ground searches of a former residential school site have found 22 “alerts” indicating the underground presence of historical human remains....
October 14, 2023
After a century in an unnamed grave, an Inuk girl finally gets her name back
After Sara Abraha Uvloriak’s story was published, church held a ceremony for a new gravestone CBC News: More than a century after her death, a young Labrador Inuk girl buried in a cemetery in London’s Chelsea neighbourhood has received a ceremony and a new gravestone. And unlike her first gravestone, this one is engraved with her name: Sara Abraha Uvloriak....
October 2, 2023
Trudeau’s government tasked her with seeking justice for Indigenous children in unmarked graves. Now she says it’s stonewalling her
A federal government appointee says limits around how she conducts her work are hindering reconciliation — and feeding into a disturbing rise in misinformation about the legacy of residential schools. Toronto Star: OTTAWA—The federal government’s point person on seeking justice for Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves says Ottawa’s limits around how she conducts her...
September 30, 2023
Orange Shirt Day: Canada faces rise in residential school denialism
Hate speech and confrontations are growing over the truth about missing children, graves and genocide People attend the second annual Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sept. 30, 2022. With Orange Shirt Day approaching Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, a surge in residential...
September 30, 2023
Probing the past: residential school secrets and archival challenges
How do we balance privacy legislation with the public’s right to know? The red honour roll is based on the national student registry. Photo: Danielle Paradis/APTN. If you are feeling triggered by the events today, the Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line (1-866-925-4419) is available 24 hours a day for survivors experiencing pain or distress about...
September 29, 2023
‘I grieve for the ones that didn’t come home’: St. Anne’s survivor helping to search for unmarked graves
There are plans to search the old St. Anne’s property with ground-penetrating radar this winter WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC Indigenous: Rick Wabano was sitting in his Grade 2 classroom in Moosonee when a priest came in, took him home to pack a bag and then brought him down to the float plane dock....
September 28, 2023
Federal government needs to counter rise in residential school denialism says Kimberly Murray
APTN News: The rise in residential school denialism is directly related to how the federal and provincial governments have been handling reconciliation in Canada, according to the special interlocutor on missing children and unmarked burials. Kimberly Murray, speaking to APTN News ahead of the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, said the federal and provincial...
September 26, 2023
Deciding to dig
Pine Creek First Nation was among the first in Canada to excavate a site with potential unmarked graves — a journey that may provide tough lessons for others weighing the same step. WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: They emerge from the bowels of an old stone church, two figures clad in white...
September 22, 2023
B.C. First Nation research finds 158 child deaths at four facilities
MISSION, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS The Globe and Mail: The Canadian Press – An investigation into unmarked graves and missing children by British Columbia’s Sto:lo Nation has revealed at least 158 deaths, most of them at a hospital. But representatives from the Sto:lo Nation Chiefs’ Council and Sto:l Research and Resource Management Centre said Thursday...
September 1, 2023
Honouring the missing children and the survivors, families and communities left behind: Senators Audette and Francis
NationTalk: When death occurs, people gather to pay respect, honour the deceased and support their loved ones. But when it comes to the thousands of children who went missing while being forced to attend Indian Residential Schools, some seem to think that Indigenous people should simply move on. Why is that? Indigenous families and...
August 29, 2023
93 possible unmarked graves discovered at former Beauval residential school
‘Schools should come with playgrounds, not graveyards,’ says Saskatchewan chief. Chief Wolverine and Dawn McIntyre speak to media about potential unmarked graves Warning: This story contains information that may be distressing to residential school survivors. APTN News: English River First Nation in Saskatchewan announced Tuesday it has discovered nearly 100 potential unmarked graves at the...
August 28, 2023
Special interlocutor hopeful new Justice Minister will act to address residential school denialism
The Globe and Mail: The Canadian Press – Kimberly Murray, the independent special interlocutor on missing children, unmarked graves and burial sites associated with residential schools, says she has met with Canada’s new Justice Minister and hopes he will move to address “denialism.” Ms. Murray, who was given a two-year mandate last year to work...
August 10, 2023
English River First Nation finds potential unmarked graves in, around school cemetery
12 radar findings appear to be consistent with burial of infants, First Nation says WARNING: This article includes distressing details. CBC News: A Saskatchewan First Nation has found what it believes to be dozens of graves in its initial findings from a radar search in and around the cemetery at a former residential school. English River...
August 7, 2023
Sask.-based lawyer welcomes Guatemalan group’s offer to support search for unmarked graves
Group offers to train Indigenous communities on how to excavate graves and recover remains WARNING: This story includes distressing details. CBC News: The Canadian Press – A Guatemala-based forensic anthropology organization is extending its hand to Indigenous Peoples looking to potentially recover remains of children on the grounds of former residential schools in Canada. Fredy Peccerelli,...
July 30, 2023
TABLE: Residential Schools that have discovered unmarked graves
Sites of unmarked graves at former residential schools Indian Residential School Date of Discovery # of unmarked graves Official recorded deaths First Nation Kamloops IRS, BC May 27, 2021 200 51 Tk’emlüps te Secwépemc FN Muscowequan IRS, SK June 1, 2021 35 – Muscowequan First Nation Brandon IRS, MB June 10, 2021 104 78 Sioux...
July 21, 2023
Anishinabe nation in Manitoba prepares to excavate 14 anomalies
Minegoziibe Anishinabe suspects there may be unmarked graves underneath Catholic church and site of former residential school A First Nation plans to excavate the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in northwestern Manitoba. Photo courtesy Justin Richard Warning: This story contains details about child abuse and residential schools that may be...
July 19, 2023
Senate committee to question groups that have not released residential school records
Governments and churches ‘standing between Indigenous Peoples and the truth,’ committee member says CBC News: A Senate committee is pledging to hold a hearing this fall to demand answers from organizations that have not released records tied to Canada’s residential school system. In a news release Wednesday, P.E.I. Sen. Brian Francis called it “disheartening” that so many governments and...
June 20, 2023
Residential School Denialism Is on the Rise. What to Know
And how to confront it. Because without the truth, there can be no reconciliation. The Tyee: May 27, 2023 marked the two-year anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc’s announcement about the location of 215 potential unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Interior of British Columbia. In recognition of the anniversary,...
June 16, 2023
Canada must combat residential school denialism, special interlocutor’s report says
The Globe and Mail: The Canadian Press: Ottawa – The independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves says “urgent consideration” should be given to legal mechanisms as a way for Canada to combat residential school denialism. Kimberly Murray makes the call in an interim report released today, just over a year after she was appointed to...
June 6, 2023
‘Have some respect’: International involvement in residential school burial work not wanted, needed
“I think what was really quite offensive to a lot of people across the country is this suggestion that we somehow needed international oversight to do the work…” — Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux Windspeaker.com: The National Advisory Committee on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials will not participate in an internationally-led engagement process for DNA collection, which...
May 30, 2023
Advisory committee on residential school graves says it won’t work with Netherlands-based NGO
Ottawa announced contract with International Commission on Missing Persons in February CBC News: A group dedicated to supporting Indigenous communities as they look for children who went missing at residential schools says it will not participate in an engagement process on DNA collection to identify unmarked graves at the former school sites. In a statement released...
April 21, 2023
‘Mohawk Mothers’ reach agreement with McGill to search hospital grounds for unmarked grave
APTN: A group of six women from Kahnawà:ke calling themselves the Mohawk Mothers, or Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera, reached an agreement with McGill University and Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI) April 20 to find out if there are unmarked graves on the campus. Kwetiio, one of the Kahnistensera, said the agreement is “for the archeology. It’s not for either side. It’s not for people fighting amongst...
April 20, 2023
shíshálh Nation says 40 unmarked graves believed found at residential school site, more are expected
St. Augustine’s Residential School in Sechelt, B.C., operated from 1904 to 1975 CBC News: The shíshálh Nation says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the former St. Augustine’s Residential School. A statement from the nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says it listened...
April 19, 2023
Search for unmarked graves at Blue Quills finds 19 sites that could be unmarked plots
Ground-penetrating radar search guided by survivor testimonies WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: A search for unmarked graves at the former Blue Quills Residential School in eastern Alberta found 19 sites that contained anomalies consistent with burial plots. The property, located about 150 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, was once a Roman Catholic-run institution....
March 21, 2023
Adviser on unmarked graves says some landowners are refusing access for searches
NationTalk: CTV News: OTTAWA – As some private landowners restrict residential school survivors from performing ceremony or searching their properties for possible unmarked graves, a federal minister says Ottawa is open to legislating new protections for the possible burial sites. Kimberly Murray, who was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to provide it with advice...
March 16, 2023
New Survivors Secretariat logo features the apples Mohawk Institute students weren’t allowed to eat
Secretariat hopes that more survivors’ stories will help inform their investigation CBC News: The Survivors’ Secretariat in Six Nations, Ont., has started a new campaign to introduce a logo and increase its social media presence. The Secretariat was established in 2021 to support survivors of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s longest running residential school. The former residential school in...
March 15, 2023
International commission looks to ease fears over unmarked graves contract
UN Indigenous rights expert heard ‘numerous concerns’ about deal during official visit CBC News: The top official at the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) wants to ease concerns the organization’s contract with the federal government could compromise its independence as it works with Indigenous communities in Canada. “I don’t have those concerns,” said Kathryne Bomberger,...
March 5, 2023
‘You’re not alone’: Guatemalan anthropologist offers support for unmarked graves searches
Fredy Peccerelli says Indigenous communities can and should develop own forensic anthropology capacity Warning: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The head of a Guatemalan forensic anthropology group is offering his support for Indigenous communities in Canada as they investigate unmarked burials linked to residential schools. When he was nine, Fredy Peccerelli’s family fled Guatemala’s...
February 28, 2023
‘They’re the Ones That are Warriors’
Guided by survivors’ memories, the Tseshaht First Nation is uncovering horrific truths about Alberni Indian Residential School. [Editor’s note: This story discusses deaths of children in Indian residential schools. It may be triggering to some readers.] HELP IS AVAILABLE If you need support, call the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at 1-800-721-0066 or 1-866-925-4419 for...
February 23, 2023
Anishinabek Nation trusts Indigenous Survivors, communities, and experts to guide unmarked burial searches regardless of federal deal with international group
Trigger warning: readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24-hour National Crisis Line, call: 1-866-925-4419. Community Assistance Program (CAP) can be accessed for citizens of the Anishinabek Nation: 1-800-663-1142. NationTalk: ANISHINABEK NATION HEAD OFFICE (February 23, 2023) – Anishinabek Nation leadership is confounded by the recent announcement of a $2...
February 21, 2023
Suspected grave sites, children’s deaths found in probe of B.C. residential school
Ground-penetrating radar has detected 17 suspected grave sites around the former Alberni Indian Residential School. The Toronto Star: PORT ALBERNI, B.C. – A Vancouver Island First Nation has announced the detection of 17 suspected unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, in an emotional event that combined science and ceremony on Tuesday. ...
February 20, 2023
Winnipeg-based group ‘deeply concerned’ by federal contract with international group to advise on graves
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says decision seems to undermine Indigenous-led work in the area CBC News: The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says there are many problems with a $2 million contract Ottawa signed with an international group to give advice on unmarked graves. The Winnipeg-based centre said it is “deeply concerned” with...
February 18, 2023
First Nations discuss best practices in Thunder Bay as searches of residential school sites continue
Nishnawbe Aski Nation hosting gathering of 18 communities this week CBC News: As searches for potential unmarked graves at former residential school sites in Canada continue, representatives of First Nations from across Ontario gathered in Thunder Bay this week to discuss best practices. The Residential School Site Search Forum took place at the Best Western Plus...
February 18, 2023
NDP MP calls for hate speech law to combat residential school ‘denialism’
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller interested in reviewing proposed bill WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Some Indigenous academics and activists say they’ve become the targets of a growing backlash against reports of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites — and they want Parliament to do something about it. They...
February 17, 2023
Feds will manage group providing options on residential school unmarked burials
$2M deal with International Commission on Missing Persons comes with significant oversight CBC News: The Canadian government will heavily supervise an international group hired to provide Indigenous communities with options on unmarked burials at former residential school sites, a contract released Friday shows. Publication of Ottawa’s $2-million technical arrangement with The Hague-based International Commission on Missing...
February 9, 2023
Interlocutor on unmarked graves ‘very concerned’ by feds’ $2M deal with international organization
Kimberly Murray flags lack of transparency on agreement to UN Indigenous rights rapporteur CBC News: The special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burials at residential schools is calling out the federal government over a deal with an international group tasked with locating missing people lost through armed conflict, human rights abuses and other causes. Kimberly...
January 25, 2023
66 more potential burial sites discovered at former B.C. residential school
Williams Lake First Nations has revealed the results of phase 2 of its search WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The lead investigator for a B.C. First Nations has announced its ongoing probe has revealed at least 28 children died on the grounds of a former residential school and identified 66 more potential burial sites. Whitney Spearing,...
January 24, 2023
Tainted milk led to deaths of Alberta residential school children, group says
First Nation group intends to excavate what it believes to be a mass grave WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. CBC News: A new report suggests tainted, unpasteurized milk was responsible for the deaths of many First Nations children at an Alberta residential school. The conclusion comes from a preliminary report...
January 18, 2023
Residential school records needed to answer ‘hard questions’: special interlocutor
The records are important because they represent ‘a path to the truth,’ says Kimberly Murray. The fight is not over to find records that could answer “hard questions” about unmarked graves at Canada’s residential schools, including who the missing children were and how they died, said the woman appointed to work with Indigenous communities in...
January 17, 2023
‘A tragic first for Ontario’: 171 plausible burials found at Kenora residential school site
A survivors group is investigating the site of the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, which operated under different names from 1897 to 1972. Article was updated 10 hrs ago Toronto Star: A survivors group that has been investigating the site of the former St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont., says ground-penetrating radar has...
January 12, 2023
Ground search at Sask. First Nation gets 2,000 ‘hits,’ more work required to determine which are graves
Star Blanket Cree Nation will now begin core sampling and DNA tests Warning: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: Ground penetrating radar searches at the site of the former Lebret Indian Industrial School found more than 2,000 “hits” over the past year, the man leading the search for Star Blanket Cree Nation announced Thursday. The...
January 12, 2023
Radar search finds more than 2,000 anomalies at Saskatchewan residential school site
More work needs to be done to determine what exactly the ground-penetrating radar has found at the former Lebret Indian Industrial School site. Toronto Star: A Saskatchewan First Nation says a ground-penetrating radar search at a former residential school has revealed more than 2,000 anomalies, while a physical search also found what is believed to...
December 6, 2022
New details coming to light says special interlocutor on unmarked graves and missing children
APTN News: Kimberly Murray is a little more than six months into her new role, but it’s become clear that new truths are being spoken. In June of 2022, Murray was working with residential school survivors looking to search the grounds of the Mohawk Institute at Six Nations of the Grand River. That’s when the...
October 30, 2022
Seeking justice for missing children and unmarked graves has uncovered ‘larger’ concerns, special interlocutor says
Kimberly Murray says an impending bill making Indigenous policing an essential service could make the process of searching burial sites much safer for Indigenous communities. Toronto Star: OTTAWA—For Kimberly Murray, many challenges lie behind the difficult work of crafting a legal framework that would seek justice for children who faced abuse and lost their lives...
March 1, 2022
Grouard IRS (St. Bernard’s IRS)
Grouard IRS (AKA – St. Bernard’s IRS – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s IRS...
March 1, 2022
St. Bernard’s IRS (Grouard Mission)
Globe and Mail – The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta announced on Tuesday the discovery of 169 potential unmarked graves on the former grounds of the St. Bernard’s Indian Residential School (1894-1961), another in a growing number of school burial sites. Kapawe’no First Nation, located near High Prairie, about 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, worked...
February 15, 2022
Fort Pelly IRS and St. Philip’s IRS
Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said the Catholic Church, and others who ran the school, must...
February 15, 2022
Keeseekoose First Nation
Fort Pelly Residential School and St. Philip’s Residential School Feb. 15, 2022: Toronto Star – The discovery of 54 potential graves of children forced to attend two residential schools on Keeseekoose First Nation land was announced to a silent gathering of community members and media… Meanwhile, Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations...
January 26, 2022
St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School
William Lake First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Willie Sellars of the William Lake First Nation delivered preliminary results from the first phase of an investigation into St. Josephs’ Mission Residential School. 93 potential human burials have been found in an area near a historic cemetery at the school site. Current data suggest that 50...
October 18, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Globe and Mail – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was publicly reprimanded by the chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation after a ceremony in which he paid his first respects to missing children believed to be buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Ms. Casimir said the First...
September 30, 2021
Marievale Indian Residential School
Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marievale Indian Residential School in southeastern Saskatchewan “which operated from 1898 until 1997, and was run by the Catholic Church for most of its history”. “We will find more bodies...
July 22, 2021
Appeal to International Criminal Court
Nunantsiaq News: Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq and her fellow NDP MP Charlie Angus held a press conference on Parliament Hill Thursday to ask federal Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti to reach out to the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into a system they said “represents a crime against humanity.” “We need...
July 16, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation released a report on the preliminary findings of their search of the 215 unmarked graves: Revising the initial estimate to 200 “targets of interest” – probable graves Calling on the federal government to help identify any remains in the unmarked graves Demanding...
July 13, 2021
Kuper Island Indian Residential School
Penelakut First Nation Toronto Star – Penelakut Tribe Chief Joan Brown “has told surrounding First Nations that it has found the unmarked graves of 160 or more people on the grounds of the former residential school”. Kuper Island School on Penelakut Island was operated by the Catholic Church until 1969. Outbreaks of deadly disease were...
June 30, 2021
St. Eugene Mission School
Ktunaxa Nation, community of Aq’am Toronto Star – Chief Jason Louie of The Lower Kootenay Band announced that they had discovered “182 sets of human remains in unmarked graves…flagged near the location of a former residential school – St. Eugene Mission School – in Cranbrook, B.C…from the member bands of Ktunaxa nation, and neighbouring First...
June 26, 2021
Marievale Indian Residential School
Cowessess First Nation Toronto Star – Chief Cadmus Delorme said the First Nation has since identified about 300 unmarked graves. Not all were believed to belong to children. Catholic Church parishioners are thought to have been buried there, as well as members of neighbouring communities. The First Nation worked with historical records from the Roman...
June 11, 2021
Misleading Update Information
The Official website of the Federal Government: “Delivering on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action” stated that the content had been “Modified” when in fact not a single work had changed from the previous update posted on Sept, 5, 2019. Those updates, beginning on June 7 began just 11 days after the discovery...
June 6, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The Missionary of Oblates of Mary Immaculate “says it will disclose all historical documents in its possession… They operated 48 schools in Canada, including the Marieval IRS and the Kamloops IRS…In the statement, the Oblates said the work is not complete because of complications with provincial and...
June 5, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The federal government, so far, has refused to legally compel the Catholic Church to release all documents relating the residential school system. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who operated the Kamloops Residential School “have yet to release any records about the Kamloops school. The Catholic order,...
June 3, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Murray Sinclair, who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission “called for an independent investigation of the broader question of unmarked sites across the country and demanded it not be conducted under the auspices of the federal government.”...
June 2, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC – NCTR and IRSHDC re calling on the federal government to work in collaboration with residential school Survivors and Indigenous governments to establish a national framework for investigation and protection of...
June 1, 2021
Muskowekwan Indian Residential School
CTV News – In 2018 and 2019, the First Nation worked with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta to use ground-penetrating radar to find unmarked or unidentified graves of children who attended the school. Through that process, along with water line construction done in the 1990’s, the First Nation has identified at...
June 1, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – In 2009 – when Conservatives were in power – there had been a request for $1.5 million, which would have been used to help locate gravesites, among other things. The request was denied. The landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on the legacy of the residential school...
May 28, 2021
Kamloops Indian Residential School
Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Toronto Star – The bodies of 215 Indigenous children were discovered in unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Residential School located in the territory of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation. The Truth and Reconciliation records the death of 51 children dying at the Kamloops Residential School between...
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