E3: Sink or Swim

Kuper Island by CBC

May 31, 202200:35:57Society & Culture

Survivor Belvie Brebber tells us about her five years at Kuper Island Residential School, a time filled with fear, cruelty and sexual violence. Belvie makes it out alive, but her younger brother Richard Thomas does not....

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