Thread by @TrusteeBurgess

6 yrs ago Canada's Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) gave their report & #94CallsToAction to address the genocide re: the Residential School System in Canada. Let's look at Calls to Action #71-#76 - under the heading: Missing Children and Burial Information. THREAD 1/15

71 We call upon all chief coroners & provincial vital
statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authorities... 2/15

...to make these documents available to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation 3/15

72. We call upon the federal government to allocate
sufficient resources to the National Centre for Truth
and Reconciliation to allow it to develop and maintain
the National Residential School Student Death
Register established by the TRC of Canada 4/15

73. We call upon the federal government to work with
churches, Aboriginal communities, and former
residential school students to establish and maintain
an online registry of residential school cemeteries,
including, where possible, ... 5/15

...plot maps showing the location of deceased residential school children. 6/15

74. We call upon the federal government to work with the churches and Aboriginal community leaders to inform the families of children who died at residential schools of the child’s burial location, ... 7/15

...and to respond to families’ wishes for appropriate commemoration ceremonies and markers, and reburial in home communities where requested 8/15

75. We call upon the federal government to work with
provincial, territorial, and municipal governments,
churches, Aboriginal communities, former residential
school students, and current landowners to develop
and implement strategies and procedures for the... 9/15

...ongoing identification, documentation, maintenance,
commemoration, and protection of residential school
cemeteries or other sites at which residential school
children were buried... 10/15

...This is to include the provision of appropriate memorial ceremonies and commemorative markers to honour the deceased children. 11/15

76. We call upon the parties engaged in the work of
documenting, maintaining, commemorating, and
protecting residential school cemeteries to adopt
strategies in accordance with the following principles: 12/15

i. The Aboriginal community most affected shall lead
the development of such strategies.
ii. Information shall be sought from residential school
Survivors and other Knowledge Keepers in the
development of such strategies... 13/15

iii. Aboriginal protocols shall be respected before
any potentially invasive technical inspection and
investigation of a cemetery site 14/15

Time to honour the #94CallsToAction #KamloopsIndianResidentialSchool #ForTheChildTakenForTheParentLeftBehind #MMWG #kamloops215 @NCTR_UM @JustinTrudeau @Pontifex 15/15