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Before we start, this is a podcast about Canada's Indian Residential Schools

and it contains descriptions of sexual violence, suicide, and abuse. If you need

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Keeper Island.

I'm doing a podcast about Indian Residential Schools and if Canada had had its way,

I wouldn't be here. Because the whole point of creating a network of church

run state-funded boarding schools that operated for over a century in Canada

was to get rid of people like me to eradicate, assimilate, kill the Indian in

the child. But I'm here. My ancestors went through a lot to get me here. So let

me tell you a story. It's good to be here finally. Oh yeah. I was wondering if

you were going to make it. I kept looking at the time and I was thinking oh

maybe they're lost. We were kind of running on Indian time. Oh no no such thing.

It starts for me in the driveway of Jill Harris. I've heard a lot of stories

about residential schools over the years but she told me one over the phone that

made the hairs on my neck stand up. Well come on in. Thank you.

Thank you. Migwitch. She's a short native grandma with long-silvering hair.

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