Kuper Island


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An 8-part series that tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn’t. They attended one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and lies haunt the community and the survivors to this day. Hosted by Duncan McCue. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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Wow. Just wow.
5 days ago
As an American who has spent a lot of time in BC, I was aware of the atrocities of the Canadian residential schools. At least I thought I was. I had no idea the profound history, and how recently these were operating. In my own life time. Shame on the catholic church and Canada for bringing so little peace to these First Nations families who deserve justice. Thank you for the care and detail put into this podcast to educate us, and make us all aware of how far we still have to go to even begin to try to make things right for indigenous peoples in North America.
Wow…
12/20/2024
So devastating and at times so hard to listen to. Your heart breaks for these innocent lives and the impact it carried for years. Beautiful storytelling, captivating and amazing.
One to remember
12/13/2024
What an incredible, heartbreaking history. Will be thinking about this one for awhile.
I can’t find the words
12/05/2024
I, myself am still feeling the consequences of the catholic priests. I am 36 years old. I have my own trauma, but became curious about how and or why I was raised the way I was by a “loved one, a parent”. Never had I ever heard anyone else say that they had to hold back tears out of fear. I thought I was the only one and wondered how the person responsible to raise me, my parent, could come up with such an idea…. That a child shouldn’t cry while getting beat. Crying, flinching, or any move resulted in more whooping. By the time I was in middle school.. I could take a whooping without a problem. Instead I would unintentionally laugh, which still led to more whooping. I turned into a mad child. I am the product of these priests’ behavior. My first baby came two months after I turned 21! I could never imagine hurting my children. I wondered how my parent could do this to me. I learned a lot trying to get an answer. I can’t be mad at my parent. My parent must have had it worse than myself. Thank you for sharing♥️ This podcast is helping me heal from all my unanswered questions. 🫶🏼 Part 2 This is my second time listening to this podcast. It breaks my heart even more this time around. My people are native to Central America and many parts of southern Texas and Mexico. My family also were victims of the catholic missions. With that I lost all connection to what is my right to Native ways generations later. I know that my people got killed for wearing Native clothing or if they spoke their Native language. I lost all their knowledge and natural ways of healing. Even their Native ways of making meals were banned, not like they had much of a choice anyway after their lands were taken and transformed into farms that my people didn’t benefit from. My culture is lost.
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