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Residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, not believing a May 2021 announcement from the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc that as many as 215 Indigenous children had been buried there, according to a new report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denialists-tried-to-access-unmarked-gravesite-tkemlups-report-1.6879980

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[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First off, I'm sorry this happened to your family and others.

Growing up in the BC interior in the 1970s what has surprised me about this whole awful situation is that we (white kids in public schools hanging out with lots of First Nations kids) didn't know about it at all. It wasn't mentioned by anyone. There was lots of anti-FN racism in my family and in my neighbourhood; I'm surprised even that this wasn't discussed in a derogatory manner. There was just NO talk about it.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The fact that you are acknowledging this and identifying it as wrong is a great sign of progress.

We can't expect the world to change overnight ... but any change even if it is one person is progress.