
Canada's Darkest Secret: Residential Schools
Behind the Bastards
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How Many Kids Died in Residential Schools?
Sue Caraboo was taken from her parents at age seven and forced into a residential school in the 1970s. She believes that dozens of other kids died while she was in turn there. The Canadian government stopped recording the deaths of Aboriginal students in 1920, because so many kids were dying and it made them look bad. Sue's experiences give you an idea of how brutal residential schools remained right up into the modern era.
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