Survivors of Canada's brutal residential school system are grappling with renewed trauma all across the country in the face of the confirmation last week that 215 First Nations children were buried in a mass grave near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
TORONTO -- For years, survivors of Canada’s brutal residential school system spoke out about the missing Indigenous children who were unaccounted for in the known death toll.
Memories came flooding back as she entered the chapel. She could point out where pews used to be lined up, which side was for girls and which was for boys.Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. has proven what many survivors have been saying for years. But it’s long been known that due to missing records and unmarked graves, the death toll is much higher.
Henry still wonders what his life would have been like if he hadn’t been taken to the school, and was able to experience the love he deserved as a child. "Because the further you remove a child from their family, you know, the less likely they want to run away,” Janis Monture, executive director of the Woodland Cultural Centre, told CTV News. Monture aided in restoring the Mohawk Institute Residential School site.
It’s hard for Monture, who is from Six Nations of the Grand River, to work here, but she feels she has to.
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