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The discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., has stunned Canadians and renewed focus on what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.”
It is also another reminder for Indigenous peoples living in Canada of a painful history they’ve known about all along.
The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First
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