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The confirmation of unmarked graves at the sites of former
residential schools has led to a global awakening on the effects of the
harmful policy says the executive director of the National Centre for
Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR.)
Stephanie Scott, who has been with the NCTR since 2016, had only been
in her new leadership position for a little over two months when 215
remains were located in unmarked graves on the former site of the
Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Scott remembers being in bed when the texts started rolling in about
the news. Despite being aware of the existence of the graves, “it was
still horrendous news to get.”
The NCTR will not be part of a delegation heading to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis – but if she was going her message would be “give us the records.” The Catholic church ran 65 residential schools.
She says negotiations with the church for over one thousand boxes of
documents have been going on for years. The NCTR has been given access
to five of those boxes.
As for the apology by the Pope, on Canadian soil, Scott says it would
be wonderful to see the Pope “in a pipe ceremony, acknowledging our
peoples and cultures and the harms that took place and really
understanding what they tried to destroy and how important that is for
our people to continue on the path of reconciliation.” SOURCE
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