‘It is our story as well’: After Kamloops, a Fairbanks vigil to mourn and raise awareness of boarding school trauma

Two hundred and fifteen bandanas, one for each of the Native children whose bodies were found buried on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, are hung from the Chena River footbridge in Fairbanks. (Dan Bross/KUAC)
A gathering was held in Fairbanks on June 13 to mourn and raise awareness about historic abuse, neglect and forced assimilation of Native children at government- and church-run residential schools in the United States and Canada. The Fairbanks event, and other