State-Sponsored Abuse in Canada

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This episode contains accounts of physical and sexual abuse. The residential school system was devised by the Canadian government under the auspices of education, but very little education took place. Instead, children were taken from their families in order to wipe out Indigenous languages and culture. In 1959, when Garry Gottfriedson was 5, he was sent to one such school: Kamloops Indian Residential School. On today’s episode, we hear his story and explore how Indigenous activists have agitated for accountability and redress from the federal government. Guest: Ian Austen, a correspondent covering Canada for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bubaro.
0:02.8	This is a daily.
0:04.6	[♪ OUTRO music playing.
0:11.5	When the remains of more than 200 children
0:15.0	were recently found on the grounds of a boarding school in Canada,
0:19.7	it forced the entire country to confront one of its darkest chapters,
0:25.5	the state-sponsored abuse of indigenous people.
0:29.9	Today, a sted herndon spoke with our colleague Ian Austin about one survivor's
0:37.3	story. It's Friday, July 16th.
0:52.6	So Ian, tell me about this recent trip you went off. Well, I went out to the
0:57.5	western Canadian province of British Columbia up into the mountains there to a
1:01.7	small city called Camelopes to meet a man named Gary Godfredson, who is a
1:08.5	member of the Camelopes Cheshirefame First Nation just across the river. And we
1:15.2	got into his Ford F-150 pickup truck. Yeah, because we're gonna go up here to
1:20.2	head up into the mountains surrounding Camelopes.
1:22.7	Okay, guys ready? Yeah, let's go. Okay, where his grandmother used to go in a
1:27.1	horse and buggy every summer to a cap and up there. Just freaked out over there.
1:31.7	So what what are we looking for today? It's called sweepers. I don't know the
1:39.9	English name for it. We were trailed by two other pickup's containing
1:45.2	Nisa's nephews and other members of Gary's extended family who wanted to
1:50.7	find a particular medicinal river. I mean, the leaves are used for old
1:56.3	backhoe but the roots also. Gary's in his 60s looks much younger and he teaches
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