News Release
For Immediate Release

May 28, 2021

We stand in grief with the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc and with all the families of stolen children. The children buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School remind us that these horrifying events are still with us: these children still have parents and siblings alive today. Their grief and loss is as sharp today as it was the day they lost their children.

We hold each of these sacred little bundles in our hearts and our thoughts, as well as each of our beautiful people who sit in sorrow as they reflect on the atrocities of the schools they were forced to attend.

We hold our hands up to Tk’emlups te Secwépemc who never gave up on finding the truth and who remain the keepers of the land that holds our sweet ancestors.

We honour the ancestors we have lost to murder and attempted genocide.  We hold the ancestors in our hearts as we walk with today’s children, youth and families along their healing journeys.

Media contact

Mary Teegee (Maaxw Gibuu), IMBA
Chair, BC Indigenous Directors Forum
Ph: 250-612-8710
OurChildrenOurWay.ca 

 

About the Directors Forum 

The Directors Forum, a coalition of executives responsible for managing the 24 delegated Aboriginal Agencies in BC, agencies representing 60% of First Nations in the province. As a collective and expert voice on child welfare matters, the Directors Forum bring decades of frontline experience working with Indigenous children and families.