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The kid who confronted his abuser at residential school (via See You in Court)
September 29, 2026 · 37 minWillie Blackwater is just 13 when he holds a knife to his rapist's throat, demanding an end to his recurring abuse. It’s the first time Willie stands up to his residential school supervisor, but it’s far from the last. Years later, after a…
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E8: Every Child Matters
July 5, 2022 · 52 minThe team tracks down the last person to ever see Richard Thomas alive at Kuper Island Residential School. Donnie Sampson was just 10 years old at the time and has disturbing memories of the day — that include a familiar and problematic…
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E7: Hurt People Hurt People
June 28, 2022 · 46 minThe children who attended Kuper Island Residential School faced a terrible aftermath trying to process what happened. The abuse they suffered there often coloured their relationships with family and community — with devastating results…
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E6: It Didn't Feel Like Justice
June 21, 2022 · 37 minWe explore what really happened during a 1990s RCMP task force investigation triggered by the high number of allegations of sexual abuses at the Kuper Island Residential School, and track down a former staff member who witnessed the…
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E5: Feeding the Dead
June 14, 2022 · 37 minAn archaeologist uses the stories of survivors and a ground-penetrating radar machine to pinpoint where children who died at the Kuper Island school were buried, sometimes in places where no one ever wanted them to be found. And we explore…
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E4: What happened to Richard?
June 7, 2022 · 44 minRichard Thomas was smart, kind and well-loved. He was having no problems in school and he wanted to go further in education. Then inexplicably, days before his graduation, he’s found dead in the Kuper Island school gym. His death was ruled…
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E3: Sink or Swim
May 31, 2022 · 36 minSurvivor Belvie Brebber tells us about her five years at Kuper Island Residential School, a time filled with fear, cruelty and sexual violence. Belvie makes it out alive, but her younger brother Richard Thomas does not. She describes a…
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E2: Nights on the Boys’ Side
May 24, 2022 · 39 minWhat was it like to be a student at one of the most notorious residential schools in Canada? Survivors James and Tony Charlie share their own account of recurring sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers, starting with a fateful trip to…