Linc Kesler, Dean of the First Nations College of the University of British Columbia, said that the Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc used by the First Nations and the same type of technology used by the First Nations revealed more physical evidence for the entire residential school The terrorist act of Canada is only a matter of time.

Kessler said: “This is definitely not an isolated incident.”

On Thursday, the Sekovic indigenous people said Preliminary findings from a ground penetrating radar investigation found the remains.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of the History and Dialogue Center of the Indian Boarding School at the University of British Columbia, agreed that the location of the boarding school should be protected.

Turpel-Lafond said: “We need to ensure that they are controlled and protected in order to conduct a full investigation.”

‘We are all grieving’

Terry Teegee, the chief representative of the First Nations region of British Columbia, said he also wants to protect the site-but bureaucratic red tape adds complexity.

Teegee said that twenty years ago, the Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc aborigines started the process of searching for corpses.

He said that the concerted efforts of governments at all levels will be needed to remove obstacles and provide the necessary resources to identify and commemorate all children who have disappeared in boarding schools.

He said: “These children have a home. These children are loved by someone.”

On Saturday night, more than a hundred people gathered in front of the torch at the Kamloops boarding school, standing side by side, saddening the children who have never returned home.

On Saturday, Marie Narcisse became part of the crowd. She went to school with her parents when she was a child.

She said: “Many times I have told oral stories about this place and other places, and no one seems to believe anyone.”

On Sunday, Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir (Rosanne Casimir) said that this week will report on the members of the country, adding that other chiefs across Canada are also conducting similar activities with their communities. dialogue.

Casimir said: “We are all sad.” “There are many unresolved issues that our member states want. The world wants to know.”

Casimir says this discovery adds a very dark chapter to Canadian history and the state-funded boarding school system.

School closed in 1978

Narcisse and her sister wandered in front of the monument where the boarding school is located for more than an hour.

In front of the school is a memorial hall with dozens of names engraved on it. On this basis, people left flowers and notes. There is a pair of small shoes on it.

Historical records indicate that 50 children were killed in school, but this new finding suggests that the estimate may be very low.

The Kamloops Indian Boarding School operated from 1890 to 1969, when the federal government took over the school from the Catholic Church as a residence for a day school until it closed in 1978.

Search records

According to data from the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the school’s enrollment reached a peak of 500 in the early 1950s. These children originally came from aboriginal communities in British Columbia and beyond.

Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc said that they are working with the BC Coroner Service to contact the students’ home communities, protect the remains, and work with the museum to find records of these deaths.

Casimir previously told CBC News that missing children were undocumented deaths, and some of them were only three years old.

She said the findings of the investigation are “preliminary” and the experts will provide a report next month.

A crisis hotline for Indian National Boarding Schools has been established to provide support to former and affected students. You can get emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis hotline: 1-866-925-4419.