‘Our peoples deserve an apology and so much more’: Alvin Fiddler

The mass grave of an estimated 215 children found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School has caused a reckoning in the halls of the House and Senate and across the country as evidence of one of many ‘acts of genocide’ perpetrated by Canada.

The memorial at Centennial Flame, pictured June 1, 2021, for the estimated 215 children whose remains were found on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

June 7, 2021

Murray Sinclair Former Senator and former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) June 1, official statement:

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