E5: Feeding the Dead

Kuper Island by CBC

Jun 14, 202200:36:48Society & Culture

An archaeologist uses the stories of survivors and a ground-penetrating radar machine to pinpoint where children who died at the Kuper Island school were buried, sometimes in places where no one ever wanted them to be fo...

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