"EDMONTON, CANADA - DECEMBER 28: Jesse, from Fort McKay First..."

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29 December 2024

EDMONTON, CANADA - DECEMBER 28: Jesse, from Fort McKay First Nation and a descendant of Edmonton's Atonement Home survivor, holds a flag with the words 'Every Child Matters' 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.'

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