The event is co-hosted by the Carcross/Tagish First Nation and Carcross Tagish Management Corporation.
Former Yukon First Nations students of the Chooutla Residential School are attending a Carcross/Tagish First Nation gathering today at their local learning centre.
The event is being co-hosted by the Carcross Tagish Management Corporation, and the event allows those who were involved to share their past historical accounts of attending the school with one another in an open space.
Parties will also provide updates on the Chooutla Site Cleanup, a clean-up initiative to remove hazardous waste left over from the former residential school site in Carcross.
Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Chief Haa Shaa du Hen (Chief) Maria Benoit says it's important for former students to meet and feel safe as a community, as well to decide as a group regarding the future use of the area where the decaying school is.
Feedback around the future of the school will be taken into account from the participants before a decision is made by Government.
Carcross/Tagish First Nation has applied and received funding from the Canadian government in recent years to provide further reclamation on the site and the school building was demolished to ground level in the 1990's.
The Chooutla Indian Residential School operated from 1911-1969 under the Anglican Church of Canada.

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