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Residential schools: What we know about their history and how many died
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), a body mandated to tell Canadians about the truth of residential schools, spent years collecting survivors’ stories and compiling historical evidence of what happened there. The TRC issued a series of reports in 2015, describing what it learned.Last week, the remains of 215 children were uncovered in unmarked burial sites where the Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C. was located.“It’s tragic, it’s horrifying and it was painful,” Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said of the discovery in an interview with Global News on Monday.