Canada Day looked different this July 1, in the wake of discoveries of unmarked graves at residential schools. While more than 80 cities decided to officially "Cancel Canada Day," Indigenous peoples, friends and supporters sang, danced, drummed, marched, rallied and held ceremony across Canada. As Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt said, they took the country back. Kasalas Sasha Perron ran 216 kilometers (about 134 miles) to raise funds for survivors of residential schools," and the children who never returned home were remembered all over Canada.

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