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In the wake of a heart-wrenching discovery on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia’s Interior, a school survivor from the province’s coast has found a way to bring joy to some Indigenous families.
Lou-ann Neel, from the Mamalilikulla and Kwagiulth people of the Kwakwaka’wakw, left her home community in Alert Bay to attend residential school in Port Alberni, B.C., at age six.
After the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported they had found the preliminary remains of 215 children who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School, Neel, who now lives and works in Victoria, organized
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