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Why changing a Waterloo, Ont., summer camp's name 'is what reconciliation looks like'

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A popular summer camp held at Laurel Creek Conservation Area in Waterloo, Ont., has changed its name in a move local Indigenous leaders say is a good example of reconciliation.

Camp K is run by St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Kitchener. 

It recently changed its name to stop using a word, created to sound Indigenous, that’s a play on the phrase “come on, I want to go.”

“It’s appropriating that language inflection that’s Indigenous,” said Amy Smoke, who is Mohawk Nation Turtle Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River and a co-founder of Land Back Camp, which operated at Laurel Creek in the

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