Remains of 215 children found at former Kamloops residential school

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Vancouver Sun - May 27, 2021 - https://archive.ph/F0en9

KAMLOOPS — A B.C. First Nation has confirmed that the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have been found on the reserve using ground-penetrating radar.
In a news release, Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir calls the discovery an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about, but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School,” which was the largest school in the country’s Indian Affairs residential school system.

Casimir said Tk’emlúps will continue to work with the ground-penetrating radar specialist to complete the survey of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds, which are at the corner of Highway 5 and Shuswap Road.
Preliminary work in confirming that the remains of the children were on the reserve began in the early 2000s, Casimir said, with the radar technology confirming the stories.

To date, more than 4,100 children who died while attending a residential school have been identified.

The Kamloops Industrial School (later known as the Kamloops Indian Residential School) was opened, under Roman Catholic administration, in 1890. It was part of the Canadian residential school system, established as part of the government policy of forced assimilation that resulted in the oppression of generations of Indigenous children. It was one of more than 130 such schools that operated in Canada between 1874 and 1996.

Children were forcibly removed from their homes once attendance became mandatory by law in the 1920s, with their parents under threat of prison if they refused. Students lived at the school from September to June, alienated from their family except for Christmas and Easter visits.

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Might be relevant, a post about Kevin Annett : Kevin Annet interview about ritual child sacrifice. viewtopic.php?p=7900#p7900

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The Queen herself and Phillip were there in Kamloops on October 10 1964, dates equal 10-10-10 and she took 10 children on a “picnic” another boy who wasn’t invited saw the children with her and they all had to line up and kiss her foot. The kids were taken and never seen alive again. He spoke out all these years and he was to testify in England about it and mysteriously he died the day before he was to fly out. Doctor at a Vancouver hospital killed him with poisoning. The ritual of 10 supposedly has something to do with Jobs Daughters of Order of the Eastern Star.

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older reports are here -
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... but they were dismissed without any bodies or evidence.

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Additional unmarked graves likely at US Indian boarding schools

indian country today - https://archive.is/lThKc

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Catholic order that staffed Kamloops residential school refuses to share records families seek | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6065322

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Indigenous group in Canada announces discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cana ... SKCN2DZ2S6

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian indigenous group announced on Wednesday the “horrific and shocking discovery” of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, just weeks after the discovery of other children’s remains shook the country.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said in a statement that the number of newly found unmarked graves was “the most significantly substantial to date in Canada.” The statement did not specify numbers.

The group said it would announce at a news conference on Thursday morning “the horrific and shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School” in Saskatchewan.

The discovery weeks ago of the remains of 215 indigenous children at the site of another residential school for indigenous children in Kamloops, British Columbia, forced Canadians to confront the legacy of an abusive and assimilationist system.

Between 1831 and 1996, Canada’s residential school system forcibly separated about 150,000 indigenous children from their families. They were malnourished and physically and sexually abused in what the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called “cultural genocide” in 2015.

Survivors who spoke with Reuters recalled perpetual hunger and haunting loneliness, and schools run under the threat and frequent use of force.

Canada’s federal government apologized for the system in 2008. The Roman Catholic Church, which ran most of the schools, has not apologized. Earlier this month, Pope Francis said he was pained, a statement dismissed by survivors.

Reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny; Editing by Peter Cooney