`PLAN TO STAY’: Protest camp at Manitoba Legislature will keep sacred fire burning, says organizer
`PLAN TO STAY’: Protest camp at Manitoba Legislature will keep sacred fire burning, says organizer

By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter WINNIPEGM MAN-It has now been more than a week since eviction notices were handed out at an encampment on the Manitoba Legislative grounds, but despite those warnings, some at that encampment say that so far they have no plans to pack up and leave. On Thursday morning, the Winnipeg Sun spoke to Danko Makwa Kaypeytashete, an elder and residential school survivor, while she and several dozen other people remained at an encampment that has been set up for more than 14 months on the east side of the Manitoba Legislative building grounds. Kaypeytashete said that when the news first broke in May of 2021 that what are believed to be 215 unmarked graves of children were discovered near a former residential school in

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