Bodies found at Kamloops residential school 'not an isolated incident,' Indigenous experts and leaders warn

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Indigenous leaders and experts in British Columbia are calling for the protection of sites of former residential schools, warning that the bodies of 215 children found in Kamloops, B.C., likely represent just a small portion of the thousands more who died while the schools were in operation. 

Linc Kesler, director of the University of British Columbia’s First Nations House of Learning, said it’s only a matter of time before the

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