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By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations is standing with Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc, residential school Survivors and Indigenous families following what it describes as racist and hateful actions near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School this weekend. In a statement issued September 28, the Confederacy condemned the gathering and the subsequent display of a banner that mocked the search for children who never returned home from the residential school. \u201cThere is no justification for targeting Survivors, families and Indigenous peoples with white supremacist hatred and the mockery of children who never returned home,\u201d the Confederacy stated. The organization said the decision to gather near the former residential school and later display the banner was deliberate and deeply disturbing, particularly… <\/p>\n

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By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News The Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 First Nations is standing with Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc, residential school Survivors and Indigenous families following what it describes as racist and hateful actions near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School this weekend. In a statement issued September 28, the Confederacy condemned the gathering and the subsequent display of a banner that mocked the search for children who never returned home from the residential school. \u201cThere is no justification for targeting Survivors, families and Indigenous peoples with white supremacist hatred and the mockery of children who never returned home,\u201d the Confederacy stated. The organization said the decision to gather near the former residential school and later display the banner was deliberate and deeply disturbing, particularly... <\/p>\n

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