But survivors of the school say they didn't need forensic proof to know that hundreds of children went missing in Kamloops. In an emotional presentation by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation on Thursday, officials investigating the unmarked graves warned that more were likely to be found in the coming months. "All residential school landscapes are likely to contain burials of missing children and remote sensing such as GPR merely provide some spatial specificity to this truth." "We're talking clearly about thousands and thousands of missing children," said Lisa Hodgetts, president of the Canadian Archaeological Association. People gather outside the former Kamloops school as they welcome a group of runners from the Syilx Okanagan Nation taking part in The Spirit of Syilx Unity Run.

Source: CNN July 16, 2021 07:52 UTC