2018-07-19

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Tom Scott

There are some stories in Canada that I'm not qualified to tell. Pull down the description to find out about them.

YOUTUBE LINKS:

* Residential Schools:

Heritage Minutes: Chanie Wenjack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tcCpKtoU0

A Viceland interview with survivors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMZaOVOin8

A CBC interview with a survivor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ64DItsIi0

* Yellowknife:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie5V-K70JUk#t=2m13 (from 2:13)

WRITTEN LINKS:

* Residential schools:

On the facts of residential schools, UBC has a good primer: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

For stories, full transcripts are available of survivors' testimony here: https://legacyofhope.ca/wherearethechildren/

* Yellowknife:

This history of the Yellowknifes Dene First Nation, written in 1997, contains the history of the mine's effects on the community. From page 50 onwards: https://web.archive.org/web/20130625224904/https://www.akaitcho.info/linked/weledeh%20yellowknife%20dene%20history.pdf