The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) has unveiled a flag to honour residential school survivors.
“It’s an important symbol of bringing people together,” said Garnet Angeconeb, who is a survivor of Pelican Lake residential school in Sioux Lookout, Ont.
“Our people know that there are so many unanswered questions in relation to what happened at residential schools but what happened earlier this spring was just a validation of what Indigenous people have been saying all along.”
In late May, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced preliminary findings of a ground penetrating radar search of the grounds of the former Kamloops residential school. Approximately 200 potential burial
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