Canada's reckoning with Residential Schools
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Following the news that 215 unmarked graves in Kelowna and then 751 unmarked graves on Cowessess First Nation near sites of Indian Residential Schools, more Canadians have had to reckon with the country's history of residential schools, including calls for schools named for architects of the system to be renamed. On this episode of This Is Why, we look at the process the country is going through to reckon with that history. Contact: Adam Toy - @Adam_Toy on Twitter Dave McIvor - @dmcivor770 on Twitter This is Why - @ThisIsWhy on Twitter Email us - [email protected] Guests: Sean Carleton, assistant professor in the Department of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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