My family spent 20 years on the run fleeing from threats I still struggled to

fully comprehend.

There's people out there that want to do us harm.

We got a phone call saying that your father's thugs were coming to break my legs.

Run hide repeat the unbelievable true story of a fugitive family and the

unimaginable truth of what we were running from.

Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC Podcast.

Before we start, this is a podcast about Canada's Indian residential schools and it contains

descriptions of sexual violence, suicide and abuse.

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Keeper Island.

When I first got there, sister calls us down to the end of the war.

If she says, okay, anybody that doesn't know how to swim, step up.

The year is 1958.

Belvi Thomas is 11 years old.

She's standing on the tall wooden warf in front of the Cuper Island Indian residential

school.

The ocean is dark, the none is fierce and Belvi can't swim.

So I stood stepped up and she says, okay, all, you know, there's five or six of us.

You'll either sink or swim and that's it.

Nobody's going to jump in after you.

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