Millions paid to a British Columbia First Nation to recover suspected children’s graves at an Indian Residential School were instead budgeted for publicists and consultants, documents show. The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations attempted to conceal the financial records under the Access To Information Act.

Accounts show the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation received more than $12 million in funding after announcing in 2021 it had discovered 215 children’s graves at the site of a Residential School in Kamloops, B.C. The claim was later revised to 200 “potential burials.” No human remains have been recovered to date despite “requests from families to return bodies,” said an internal memo.

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