[PODCASTS] Listens for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day
Tomorrow, September 30th, is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as well as Orange Shirt Day. Canada's past treatment of Indigenous people has, quite frankly, been absolutely terrible and atrocious. The day honours children who never returned home from residential schools as well as survivors, their families and communities.
We can all educate ourselves and learn about Indigenous culture where we live and throughout Canada. CBC has a list of seven podcasts you can listen to and expand your knowledge.
CBC also has two very grim podcast series which come with a content warning--both contain distressing details of child abuse, sexual abuse and mentally distressing details. However, it's important to learn about the past which was hidden away for so long and continues to impact communities and individuals today.
Kuper Island
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.
Finding Cleo
This series should really be required listening for Canadians. I remember ads encouraging people to adopt Indigenous children when I was growing up :S Two of my first cousins are Métis and the thought that they could have been in a similar situation is very distressing.
Where is Cleo?
It's a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan in the 1970's. Her siblings say she was stolen, and then raped and murdered while trying to hitchhike back home, her body left at the side of the road somewhere in the United States.
They have no idea where she is, whether her name was changed, or if anyone has been charged in her murder.
We can all educate ourselves and learn about Indigenous culture where we live and throughout Canada. CBC has a list of seven podcasts you can listen to and expand your knowledge.
CBC also has two very grim podcast series which come with a content warning--both contain distressing details of child abuse, sexual abuse and mentally distressing details. However, it's important to learn about the past which was hidden away for so long and continues to impact communities and individuals today.
Kuper Island
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.
Finding Cleo
This series should really be required listening for Canadians. I remember ads encouraging people to adopt Indigenous children when I was growing up :S Two of my first cousins are Métis and the thought that they could have been in a similar situation is very distressing.
Where is Cleo?
It's a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan in the 1970's. Her siblings say she was stolen, and then raped and murdered while trying to hitchhike back home, her body left at the side of the road somewhere in the United States.
They have no idea where she is, whether her name was changed, or if anyone has been charged in her murder.