A Yellowknives Dene woman hunting. Photo taken in the mid-1950s. This is one of the photos that has not been named as yet. Busse, the photographer, died in a plane crash in 1962. His notes were lost in a subsequent fire at his studio.
Photo: Henry Busse | © NWT Archives
Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich with adoptive parents Andrew and Jean Wanamaker. “Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead. I must demand that vou stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.”
Alaska State Library
Part of a widespread colonial and genocidal strategy, Canada's Kuper Island Indian residential school was meant to eradicate Indigenous children and rip families apart.
After nine months of investigating, travelling and interviewing, we unravel many truths about one of the most notorious residential schools in the country.
It's about innocent children, little spirits, perpetrators, accountability and healing.
TRAILER: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1062/episode/15911455
A School They Called Alcatraz -- is the title of our first episode in KUPER ISLAND.
People like former chief of Penelakut, Jill Harris, said community members could feel apparitions of children after the Canadian Indian residential school closed its doors for good.
"People were saying that they could feel like being touched, like physically touched" - J. Harris
Listen to A School They Called Alcatraz here:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1062/episode/15912974
I still like Mastodon. It seems like a really cool meeting place.
I wish more people would share their bios tho!! Who are you outside of your photo? Where are you located?
Here is our trailer for the KUPER ISLAND podcast:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1062/episode/15911455
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If you listened to the podcast KUPER ISLAND, then you might be interested in reading 'The Boy from Halalt.'
This is Richard Thomas. It is one of only two photos that his family has of him. We released this story shortly after ep. 8.
Richard’s death was labelled a suicide but his family & classmates say that’s only half the story.
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/kuper-island-residential-school-richard-thomas
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