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The 215 children found at Kamloops Residential School

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Over the weekend many began to process the news of the 215 children’s bodies found at the former residential school site in Kamloops by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.

This is a story of dehumanization, where these and many more children died alone under frightening circumstances. We believe Indigenous voices who tell us that the true number of buried bodies at this location is higher, and that there are likely unrecovered children buried at other former residential school locations.

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    Jun 01, 2021

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