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Flowers and tributes are left at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, where the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered in May of last year [File: Nicholas Rausch/AFP]

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 

Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.

Canada – A year ago this week, Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced that “an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented” had been confirmed.

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