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By Dione Wearmouth

Lheidli T'enneh Flag

New Lheidli T’enneh flag ready to fly in front of City Hall

Dec 8, 2021 | 1:55 PM

PRINCE GEORGE- Lheidli T’enneh will be raising a new flag at City Hall 215 days after 215 unmarked graves were uncovered at a former Kamloops residential school. The new flag will feature a small orange ribbon to honour the residential school survivors and those who didn’t return home.

The flag will be raised at a ceremony on January 4 at 2:15 pm. Lheidli T’enneh Chief Dolleen Logan says the orange ribbon has become a national symbol of remembrance for children who died in the residential school system.

“Having an orange ribbon on our new LTFN Memorial Flag is a reminder that we will never forget the kids that didn’t make it home from residential schools and their families. We also believe it sends the right message as well to residential school survivors that they too will never be forgotten,” she stated.

Lheidli T’enneh Councillor Joshua Seymour says the Kamloops discovery and the thousands of other unmarked graves that have been uncovered across Canada since

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have put an emphasis on the demand for reconciliation efforts in the country.

“This really brought our call to action for not just Indigenous people but Canadians as a whole to come together and understand the dark legacy of residential schools, and to understand that we are still experiencing it although the last residential school closed down in 1996, we’re still feeling the after-effects of what’s going on,” explained Seymour.

Chief Logan says the flag-raising ceremony will be a solemn day that will be very important to Lheidli T’enneh community members. Back in June, the LTFN flag was lowered at the Regional District of Fraser Fort George office and at City Hall.