Residential Schools

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Canadian residential schools were not regular boarding schools, they were facilities meant to assimilate indigenous peoples into European-based Canadian society. Despite failing in this regard, they caused widespread intergenerational trauma to most people that attended them.

TW: Physical/Sexual/Religious Abuse, Racism, Colonialism, Violence, Violence against children.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by Loanna and Quinn.
0:03.9	If you'd like to suggest a topic, you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast, on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast, and on our website, www.morbid Curiosity Podcast.com.
0:18.2	This episode contains discussions of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, neglect, violence,
0:24.6	religious violence, and racism against children, suicide, colonialism, and intergenerational trauma.
0:31.8	Canada's Indian residential school survivors and family crisis line is available 24 hours a day at 1.866-925-4419.
0:42.3	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
1:01.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
1:06.4	and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages.
1:10.0	I am one of those people.
1:12.4	My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. If you pay attention to the news, you may have heard of Canadian residential schools last year.
1:43.8	These mid-1800s to late 1900s facilities were in the news
1:48.2	due to the horrific discovery of hundreds of graves around the locations of former schools.
1:54.3	Even more horrific, most of the bodies are believed to be those of children.
1:59.6	The existence of these graves
2:01.1	supports past and more recent reports
2:03.7	of abuse and neglect
2:05.2	suffered by the students
2:06.6	at the hands of the staff at these schools.
2:09.9	Who were the children in these unmarked graves?
2:12.9	What was going on in these schools?
2:15.7	Before we answer these questions,
2:17.4	I want to say that much of the
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