Kukpi7 Wayne Christian, a tribal chief with Secwépemc ancestry, is calling for the abolishment of the Indian Act, after the discovery of 215 suspected residential school children’s remains in Kamloops, B.C. As Neetu Garcha explains, Christian says Indigenous children today still suffer because of systemic racism.
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