KAMLOOPS, 小蓝视频 鈥� The remains of 215 children have been discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, 小蓝视频 Here is some of the reaction to what was found:聽
"Knowing that children have went missing, their relations have went missing and never came home. There was always question about where. There had to be more to the story." 鈥� Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk'eml煤ps te Secw茅pemc First Nation.聽
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"The only thing that I can recall is that at the time we assumed that they ran away and they made it home." 鈥� Upper Nicola Band Chief Harvey McLeod, who spent two years as a boy at the Kamloops Indian Residential School聽
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"Though we knew that many children never returned home, and their families were left without answers, this confirmation brings a particular heaviness to our hearts and our spirits all throughout Secw茅pemculecw." 鈥� Judy Wilson, secretary-treasurer for the Union of 小蓝视频 Indian Chiefs.聽
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"This is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. And it is a stark example of the violence the Canadian residential school system inflicted upon Indigenous Peoples and how the consequences of these atrocities continue to this day." 鈥� 小蓝视频 Premier John Horgan.聽
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鈥淭he loss of one child is unimaginable. The loss of 215 children found on the grounds of a residential school is a national tragedy.鈥� 鈥� Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan.聽
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鈥淭oday, we are all reliving one of the darkest periods in our collective history." 鈥� Grand Chief Jerry Daniels of the Southern Chiefs Organization in Manitoba.聽
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"The death of each and every one of these children is an irreplaceable loss for Indigenous families and represents the dark history that all of us must grapple with." 鈥� Interim 小蓝视频 Liberal Leader Shirley Bond.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 28, 2021.
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