B.C. schools remember Kamloops residential school children by colouring paper eagle feathers for display

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For Prince George, B.C., grade school teacher Amanda Beers, colouring eagle feathers on paper has been a way for her students to learn about a difficult topic.

On Thursday, the Grades 5-6 teacher from Heritage Elementary School and her students attached 215 feathers — in red, orange, yellow and other warm colours — on the school’s fences to commemorate the Indigenous children whose remains have been discovered at a former residential school in