1. The discovery of a mass grave at Kamloops Residential School last month with as many as 215 remains was shocking but not surprising. The Canadian federal government has long known there are likely many such graves across the country but refused to investigate
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4. To understand the story better, I interviewed the historian Sarah Nickel, who both studies Indigenous activism and is from from the nation of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the community whose children were forced into Kamloops residential schoolhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-mass-graves-and-indigenous?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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The Canadian government should revoke the Catholic Church's tax exemption status.
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What is the mortality rate for a non native residential or boarding school over the same period? (1880-1960ish) Do we know how much worse this is than the average?
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They used electric chairs to punish students.
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