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Percy Casper, 73, spent 10 years as a child at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

The federal government had originally hoped to remove a Parliament Hill memorial dedicated to Indigenous children who died and went missing from residential schools months earlier than actually happened last year, according to newly released documents.

First Nations chiefs and delegates will gather virtually this week to discuss their communities’ priorities and plans for moving forward — even as they also reflect on a past brought into harsher light with the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential schools.