BLACKED OUT: Ottawa censors files on $12.1 million spent searching for alleged Kamloops residential school graves – Indian Residential School Research Group
March 26, 2026
This article was originally posted March 6, 2026 on the Western Standard website . It has been republished with the Western Standard’s permission.
The federal Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has redacted nearly all details from internal reports describing how a B.C. First Nation spent millions in taxpayer funding intended to locate alleged graves of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Blacklock’s Reporter says documents released under the Access to Information Act show the department labelled the reports “confidential,” concealing details about work undertaken by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation after Ottawa provided $12.1 million to support searches tied to claims that 215 children were buried on the site.
