Residential Schools Protest Site

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Residential Schools Protest Site

Coverage

Robson Square Vancouver, Canada. The intersection of Hornby Street and Robson Street.

Description

Children’s clothing, stuffed animals, and photos of missing children are placed on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to memorialize “215 children whose remains have been found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, in Vancouver” according to Victoria News. Some of the messages written on signs include:
“We are not accepting verbal apologies this year, only changed behavior”

“No Pride in Genocide”

“Every child matters”

“Our Home on Stolen Land”

The protest responded to the abuse of  Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. According to the New York Times post on May 28, 2021: “An Indigenous community says it has found evidence that 215 children were buried on the grounds of a British Columbia school, one of the many in Canada set up to forcibly assimilate them.”

Rights

Photographer: Paul Lorah

Publisher

Urban Art Mapping Research Project

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Contributor

LA

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