Tk'emlúps Te Secwepemc

• B.C. First Nation marks 5 years since potential burial sites found on grounds of former school

  It has been five years since a Kamloops First Nation shared preliminary findings of an investigation into potential burial sites on the grounds of the former residential school.

  Perspectives

  May 27
  
• Discovery of 2 skulls on Kamloops property leads to debate over B.C. property rights

  A private landowner was excavating their Kamloops property in June to make a community garden for seniors when they unearthed two human skulls.

  Politics

  Jan 19
  
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• First Nation wants reasons for Trans Mountain ruling; says it’s entitled to appeal

  A B.C. First Nation is asking the Canada Energy Regulator to release its reasons as soon as possible for allowing a modification of the Trans Mountain pipeline's route.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2023
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• ‘A different place’: How the missing children of a former B.C. residential school changed Canada

  It's been two years since Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc announced findings of over 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. A lot has happened since.

  Politics

  May 26, 2023
• B.C. powwow organizers apologize after identity-based event rules spark outrage

  The rules sparked immediate backlash, with some accusing the Kamloopa Powwow Society of enforcing colonial blood quantum and excluding gender diverse people.

  Canada

  Jul 13, 2022
• Second annual convoy to Kamloops, B.C. honours the ‘lost souls’ of residential school

  The convoy, led in partnership with the We Stand in Solidarity truckers group, aims to memorialize the children who died in residential schools.

  Canada

  Jun 18, 2022
• After the papal apology: Residential school survivors on next steps 

  In April, in front of a room of Indigenous delegates, Pope Francis delivered a historic apology. For some it provided healing and for others more concrete action is needed.

  Features

  Jun 11, 2022
• Identifying remains found at former B.C. residential school will be costly, slow: experts

  Earlier this week the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said it would work to eventually use DNA to identify and repatriate the remains believed to be at the site,.

  Canada

  May 26, 2022
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• B.C. First Nation lays out plan to repatriate remains found at former Kamloops residential school

  Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation says it plans to exhume the bodies found at the Kamloops residential school, identify them using DNA and return them to their home communities.

  Canada

  May 25, 2022
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• Trudeau faces chants, pounding drums as he walks through crowd at Kamloops memorial

  One year ago, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced that the graves were detected at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

  Politics

  May 24, 2022