If at least 150,000 Indigenous children attended residential schools in its 165-year history, that means 17 per cent of the children died while attending residential school.

The Truth & Reconciliation Commission confirmed 3,200 deaths as part of its investigation, but Senator Murray Sinclair believes there could be closer to 25,000. Indigenous people knew a discovery like this was an eventuality as much as we know that it's a tragedy that will be repeated. Last week, the bodies of 215 children, some as young as three, were found buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School. My grandmother may have experienced similar trauma or may have avoided it by some miracle, but we'll never know. Stories have been, and always will be, the best way to educate ourselves about the truth.

And how were school officials held accountable? Charles's mom was given a bag of flour every month for the rest of the school year. He lost six toes after seeking protection from the elements in a shed. In 1907, a boy, Charles Cline, ran away after getting beaten for wetting his bed. Kids were tied up so that they wouldn't run away. Girls slept outside on balconies because enrolment was always overcapacity. At Norway House Indian Residential School, officials fed children rotten food. Her experience is lost history, a story that will remain forever untold. And to tell my mother that her sister had died while attending Towers Island Day School, but she'd not found out until long after Maggie's death. She died having never told her story, other than to remark to one of her granddaughters how sad it had made her when they cut her hair. My grandmother, Sarah Robertson, attended Norway House Indian Residential School in the 1920s and early 1930s. He originally posted the list on Twitter, and repurposed it for CBC Books. In 2021, Robertson curated this list of books by Indigenous writers about residential schools. Why the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation isn't just another stat holiday 30, Canada will mark its second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a time to commemorate children who died while being forced to attend residential schools, those who survived and made it home, their families and communities still affected by the lasting trauma. Here is a thread of books, thanks to all who listed them over the last week (1/?)- Sept. There's no excuse not to know the history or its impact. Stories have played, & will continue to play, a role in educating Canadians, young & old, about the terrible legacy of Residential Schools.

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