![]() ![]() “Jane says a mother's love on the birthday is a heartache like no other with a daughter who is missing is heartbreaking and pleads with the public to help find Nicole.” Students from Sipekne'katik First Nation attended a sacred fire on Wednesday to honour the 215 children whose remains were found buried at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., as well as. “Jane and Dennis Aubertin, said that on this day they just want the public to know how much it hurts not to have any information on her whereabouts and ask the public to please come forward with information on her disappearance that can help resolve her case,” said Leon. Bring your sacred self and you are welcome. “Information on the missing will be sought and given on the missing women,” said Leon.įollowing the sacred fire, there will be a candlelight vigil for Bell on what would have been her 33rd birthday. Join us on the North Thompson River in Westsyde, Kamloops BC each month for Fire Ceremony. Leon said the fire will be lit close to the trailer court where Bell lived in Malakwa off Cunningham Frontage Road by the race track and the mailboxes. Jody Leon, a missing women advocate and member of the Splatsin First Nation, said the “sacred fire will be lit to bring answers and prayers for the missing women.” Police are calling Genereaux's death suspicious, but no charges have been filed. The remains of Traci Genereaux were found at a farm on Salmon River Road, but no sign of the other women has been seen since they went missing. Starting at 1 p.m., the fire will burn for five hours in honour Nicole Bell, Caitlin Potts, Deanna Wertz and Ashley Simpson who have all gone missing from the North Okanagan-Shuswap area. "I'm not saying this may be the cause of our church going up in flames," he said, "But there's a lot of anger.Nicole Bell, Deanna Wertz, Ashley Simpson and Caitlin Potts have all gone missing from the North Okanagan-Shuswap area.Ī sacred fire will be lit in Malakwa today in honour of the women who have gone missing from the region in the past two years. "There's a lot of anger in every indigenous community across Canada after those 215 innocent children's graves were discovered," Gabriel commented. The fire, which honours the memory of the 215 Indigenous children lost at a Kamloops residential school, is being kept burning through Friday (June 4). Today those experiences are blamed for a high incidence of poverty, alcoholism and domestic violence, as well as high suicide rates, in Canada's indigenous communities. Floyd Pelkey, left of the Tsawout Nation and Eugene Sam of the Songhees Nation tend the sacred fire at the University of Victoria. ![]() ![]() Some 150,000 indigenous, Inuit and Metis youngsters were taken from their communities and enrolled at Canada's residential schools, where students were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers who stripped them of their culture and language. "It's hoped that they will find something that they can use to determine the cause and maybe who's responsible," he told CBC. Gregory's Church blaze, adding that the wooden church was completely gutted.įorty kilometers (25 miles) north, Chief Greg Gabriel of the Penticton Indian Band said investigators were sifting through blackened rubble and reviewing surveillance footage for clues about what sparked the Sacred Heart Church fire. Out of respect for the children and families of the Kamloops Residential School tragedy. "Early indications are that it was set," he said of the St. a sacred fire would burn in order to help our relatives travel home. "Both churches burned to the ground and police are treating the fires as suspicious," he said.Īlthough too early to conclude arson, he added, "We are sensitive to the recent events" in Kamloops.Įarlier, Bob Graham, chief of the volunteer fire department in Oliver, British Columbia, told public broadcaster CBC, "We believe by looking at the scene and the surroundings, that there was a liquid accelerant used." Sergeant Jason Bayda said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating the two fires. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |