S4: The Boy in the Picture
The Secret Life of Canada
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The Regina Indian Industrial School
In its first six years of operations, an average of around eight children died each year at the regina indian industrial school. While the industrial school was in operation, physical, sexual and mental abuse was rampant. These schools were a key factor in the transmission of t b. Tuberculosis in indigenous communities. Kids would contract it at school, bring it home to their communities, and then infected children would go back to schools, re infecting the school. But what else did you find out about thomas? Well, i was starting to get worried because i couldn't find any more. You know, as the saying goes, the truth always comes out, and i believe it will
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