Pope Francis endorses new agreement between Tk’emlúps, Kamloops and Vancouver dioceses
TK’EMLÚPS TE SECWÉPEMC — Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (TteS) took a historical step in its relationship with the Catholic church over the weekend.
Last week (Mar. 28), the band announced it would be signing a Sacred Covenant with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops on Easter Sunday (Mar. 31).
The agreement was meant to establish what Tk’emlúps outlines as ‘practical commitments’. Namely, the church and TteS mutually agree to work together in memorializing the children who attended residential schools, facilitating access to historical records and archives, and working to provide information as Tk’emlúps undertakes its investigation into children who were unaccounted for, or missing, and injustices that took place at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.