Why did so many indigenous children die in Canada’s residential schools? - a podcast by BBC World Service

The recent discoveries of unmarked graves at the sites of so-called Indian Residential Schools has put Canada’s treatment of its indigenous peoples back under the spotlight.

For more than a century, tens of thousands of children were forced by the state into a religious school system that split families and brutalised the children in its care.Tanya Beckett looks at the history of the residential schools and asks why so many children died there.Producer: Rob Cave and Olivia Noon


(former Kamloops Indian Residential School, British Columbia, Canada, 2 June 2021. Credit: Cole Burston/Getty Images)

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