Tseshaht First Nation gets funding to search for missing children

 By Marc Lalonde  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A First Nations community out west will get a funding package to continue the search for their missing children around the former Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS), the federal government announced last week. Tseshaht First Nation will get another $2.7 million from the federal government to continue the search for their missing children around the former school property in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Through an initiative the community calls `Doing it for our Ancestors,’ Tseshaht is engaging elders, AIRS survivors and community members by undertaking research and knowledge gathering, ceremony and cultural activities, and planning. The community will continue its ongoing field work investigations using geophysical search technologies and construct a memorial. “Tseshaht First Nation is pleased to receive this additional support from…

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