Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation held its first news conference since it announced the discovery of the remains of 215 former residential school students last week
Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir stands outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School after speaking to reporters on Friday, June 4, 2021.The head of the B.C. First Nation that shocked the world with the discovery of unmarked graves at its former residential school has joined leaders across Canada – including the Prime Minister – in a call for the Catholic Church to apologize for its role in the country’s colonial education system.
But Kukpi7 Casimir and members of Canada’s federal cabinet say they want a papal apology, which was a key call to action from the 2015 final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was accepted by the Liberal government. “Truth is at the heart of understanding our past and preventing further damage in the future,” he said. “We need to have truth before we can talk about justice, healing and reconciliation.”
The experts also called on the government to undertake similar investigations in all other Indigenous residential schools in the country. “This is something that communities have asked for, and we’ve long been here to support that,” Mr. Trudeau said. “We also know that residential schools were only one piece of a larger, colonial system. And the work to right these wrongs, both past and present, is far from over.”
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