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Tiny moccasins, sneakers, sandals and traditional tobacco ties line the steps of public buildings across the country in honour of the 215 Indigenous children whose bodies were discovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential school.
215 children.
Ground-penetrating radar was used to locate the children’s remains in a mass unmarked grave — the discovery reveals a macabre part of Canada’s hidden history.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Veldon Coburn of the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Ottawa talks about mourning the 215 children. He addresses how residential schools broke down and sterilized Indigenous lives, removing any trace of the gifts inherited from their parents and ancestors, re-packaging them into Canadian bodies.
Prof. Coburn writes about how until the remains were recently located, the Catholic church was content to leave 215 children as ‘disappeared,’ and how the disappeared — those that have been secretly disposed — produce a unique grieving.
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People across Canada, including this scene in Edmonton, have left shoes and candles at public displays in recognition of the discovery of children’s remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
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Ground-penetrating radar located the remains of 215 First Nations children in a mass unmarked grave, revealing a macabre part of Canada’s hidden history.
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