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ShortHand: Canada’s Residential School System

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Between 1828 and 1997, over 150,000 indigenous Canadian children were forcibly taken from their families, and placed in church-run ‘residential schools’. Their heads were shaved, they were forbidden from speaking their native languages, and their cultures were forcibly and violently suppressed.

This is the story of one of the darkest chapters in Canada’s colonial history, and the cultural genocide of the country’s indigenous peoples.

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello. And welcome to yet another short hand from your favorite short-handed duo.

0:18.5

I don't actually have short hands. I have quite large hands for someone by size.

0:23.2

I don't think they're larger, they're just like a long. The other day I was in the shower and I was like,

0:27.4

I didn't know why. I was just thinking about the phrase like, oh, you know, you scratch my back,

0:31.7

I'll scratch yours and I was like, I can scratch my entire back by myself.

0:35.5

To you. Yes.

0:36.5

It says I was washing my back. I was like, there isn't a part of my back that I can't reach.

0:40.8

I have a very specific part that I can't reach. Which bit.

0:44.4

Like where your bra is basically. Or like maybe a bit, but like I have to really work hard.

0:50.0

And because of where it is, it's quite often where I sunburn myself because I can't reach it,

0:54.1

which means it itches and I can't reach it. Oh no. Well, no. I think it's my shoulders more

0:59.2

than anything that seem to move quite far. Let me show you Hannah. I can't touch my entire back.

1:05.0

Oh yeah.

1:09.7

Fantastic for this audio format. I can confirm she did just stand up and do an impression of her

1:15.6

washing herself. I can't touch my entire back. So, short hand, I might not be that short hand

1:22.6

we are today. Canadian short hand. Bit bit miss.

1:26.7

Yes. Bit miss.

1:30.0

But you know what, it's January and I am miss. So, that's, that's miss you more.

1:35.6

In 1902 in British Columbia, Canada, the half-frozen body of an eight-year-old boy was discovered

1:41.4

in the snow. He was reported to have had, quote, blood on his cheeks and behind the ears,

1:47.6

an apportion of one cheek had been eaten by an animal.

1:51.1

The boy was identified as Duncan Sticks. He died from exposure whilst attempting to run away

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