Cecelia Reekie

Cecelia Reekie discusses mourning in the Indigenous community after discovery at Kamloops

Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Content warning: descriptions of residential school abuse, anti-Indigenous racism, and genocide  The remains of 215 Indigenous children were found near a residential school in Kamloops on May 27, 2021. Their identities are not yet known. While experts said it is difficult to “pinpoint with certainty the causes of death,” the findings revealed these are “missing Indigenous children who were unaccounted for in the known death toll” of the residential school system. “When the news broke — and we were seeing it everywhere on social media — I was just heartbroken. And the grief is so…

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