Kamloops Residential School

• Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc facing crucial decisions as unmarked grave investigation continues

  The Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc face some tough decisions, such as how to respectfully exhume potential remains from unmarked graves.

  Canada

  Jun 11, 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
  
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• 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
• 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
• How the finding of unmarked graves in Kamloops triggered a year of reckoning

  The findings at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia led to the detection of hundreds more suspected graves across Canada.

  Canada

  May 18, 2022
• Photo of red dresses hung on crosses along B.C. roadside wins world photo award

  Amber Bracken, a freelance photojournalist who is based in Edmonton, captured the photo of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside to commemorate the children who died.

  Canada

  Apr 7, 2022
• $1.6 million raised for residential school survivors with orange sprinkle doughnuts

  Their Kamloops restaurant sold more than 2,300 on the first day of the campaign, a record countrywide.

  Canada

  Oct 12, 2021
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• ‘Hopefully I brought them some peace’: Splatsin members honour lost residential school students

  The walk travelled from the former residential school in Kamloops to the Splatsin Community Centre, outside of Enderby, stopping for two ceremonies along the way.

  News

  Sep 11, 2021
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• Trudeau says he would support a criminal investigation into residential schools  

  In interview with Global News, PM Justin Trudeau says while he is supportive of a criminal probe into burial sites at residential schools it was not up to him to call for one.

  Canada

  Jul 19, 2021