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Flash Rally At Demolition Site Remembers Atonement Home Survivors

EDMONTON, CANADA - DECEMBER 28: Stephanie Harpe, a passionate international advocate for Missing, Murdered, and Exploited Indigenous People (MMEIP) and a survivor of Edmonton's Atonement Home, seen at a flash rally by the demolition site of the former Franciscan Sisters Benevolent Society premises, on December 28, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. From the 1870s to 1996, over 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada were forcibly placed in residential schools, where many faced abuse, cultural suppression, and high mortality rates-an atrocity the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called 'cultural genocide.' (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)

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Photo ID: #11901355
Date taken: 28 December 2024
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Photographer: Artur Widak/NurPhoto
Category: Social Issue

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