Tk'emlúps Te Secwepemc

• 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
  
• ‘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
  
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• 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
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• 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
• 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 23, 2022
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• A year of trauma, catharsis for Kamloops Indian Residential School survivors

  The year since the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced suspected grave sites in a former apple orchard has been one of national reckoning about residential schools.

  Features

  May 21, 2022
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• The 215 missing children ‘brought us together,’ says Kúkpi7 Casimir ahead of memorial

  The gut-wrenching confirmation of Le Estcwicwéy̓ leaked first within the community, devastating many who found themselves at home alone at the time or reading it in a letter.

  Canada

  May 18, 2022