北美洲／中美洲，單幅照片

世界新聞攝影展年度照片

Amber Bracken

加拿大，紐約時報

2021年加拿大發現了在英屬哥倫比亞省坎盧普斯城215個無名墓後的6月19日，這些紅洋裝被懸掛在路邊的十字架上，以紀念於原住民兒童同化機構——坎盧普斯印地安寄宿學校裡死去的孩子們。

這所寄宿學校在十九世紀的原住民強制同化政策下創校，目的在使各個原住民部族融入歐洲殖民者與傳教士所帶來的西方文化。高達十五萬名學生被迫離開家鄉與父母，學校經常禁止他們使用母語，而他們也常遭受暴力，甚或性侵。真相與和解委員會總結出全國至少有4,100位學生死於就學期間，而坎盧普斯是這類寄宿學校中最大的一所。2021年5月，一個調查計畫使用透地雷達在坎盧普斯偵測到了215處可能為未成年人遺體的埋葬地點，這也證實了一份口述歷史調查報告。

North and Central America, Singles

World Press Photo of the Year

Amber Bracken

Canada, for The New York Times

Red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, an institution created to assimilate Indigenous children, following the detection of as many as 215 unmarked graves, Kamloops, British Columbia, 19 June 2021.

Residential schools began operating in the 19th century as part of a policy of forcibly assimilating people from various Indigenous communities into Western culture of the European colonists and missionaries. Upwards of 150,000 students were forcibly removed from their homes and parents, often forbidden to communicate in their own languages, and subject to physical and sometimes sexual abuse. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that at least 4,100 students died while at the schools. The Kamloops School became the largest in the system. In May 2021, a survey using ground-penetrating radar identified as many as 215 potential juvenile burial sites at Kamloops – confirming reports from oral histories.