A former student and senior federal politicians are among those reacting to the devastating discovery of a mass grave near the residential school at Kamloops, B.C.; memorials across the country honour the 215 lives lost. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and the Saskatchewan government jointly call on the federal government to research undocumented deaths and burials at six school sites in the province.

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