Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Tk'emlúps Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir speak during an event on Oct. 18, 2021 following meeting to discuss Band assertion of as many as 215 grave sites on former Kamloops Indian Residential School site/via Tk'emlups te Secwepemc
Canada’s Minister of Indigenous Services will be at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc to make some kind of a funding announcement at 11 am this Thursday, March 23.
Patty Hajdu will join Tk’emlúps Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir and Colleen Erickson, the Chair of the Board for the First Nations Health Authority, for the announcement at Moccasin Square Gardens.
Details are limited, but Casimir told NL News last October that the band is continuing to work towards building a healing centre, an elders’ lodge, and a museum.
“Our main focus is on you know the concentration of healing and we want our people to very much involved as we move forward,” she said at the time.
“We are working on those steps and there are some steps that have gone forward but there are still many more to go. We are looking forward to that taking place more so in the future as well.”
In October of 2021, Casimir said she hoped that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promise of “concrete actions” on reconciliation would include federal funding for all three of those projects.
