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By Brittany Hobson Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew took part in a ceremony with Indigenous groups this morning at a campground located on a burial site for children who died at a residential school. Kinew sat with First Nations leaders and elders in a teepee erected at the Turtle Crossing Campground, south of the former Brandon Indian Residential School in western Manitoba. The ceremony comes on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the day after the provincial government announced it partnered with the City of Brandon to purchase the private campground. The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation says more than 50 children are buried at the site. A person walks past a cemetery before a ceremony to hand over campground land to Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Brandon, Manitoba, on… <\/p>\n

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By Brittany Hobson Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew took part in a ceremony with Indigenous groups this morning at a campground located on a burial site for children who died at a residential school. Kinew sat with First Nations leaders and elders in a teepee erected at the Turtle Crossing Campground, south of the former Brandon Indian Residential School in western Manitoba. The ceremony comes on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the day after the provincial government announced it partnered with the City of Brandon to purchase the private campground. The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation says more than 50 children are buried at the site. A person walks past a cemetery before a ceremony to hand over campground land to Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Brandon, Manitoba, on... <\/p>\n

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