Exterior of former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation land in Kamloops, B.C., on Sept. 20, 2021.
Exterior of former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation land in Kamloops, B.C., on Sept. 20, 2021. Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc and the Vancouver and Kamloops arms of the Catholic church have released the details of a signed document agreeing to a historical record acknowledging the harms caused by residential schools and the role the Catholic church played.
A hand-painted stone lies in the grass at a memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., on Thursday, June 1, 2023. As many as 215 potential burial sites were discovered in the area in 2021. Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir speaks during a news conference ahead of a ceremony to honour residential school survivors and mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, 2021.
"The residential school system did do great damage to the language, customs, traditions in this community, and we see the ongoing impact of that today," Miller said. "We encourage all Catholics and indeed all Canadians to learn more about the ongoing challenges faced by Indigenous people," Miller said."It takes everybody at every level to be walking that path and journey together," she said.
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