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.

Producer: Rob Cave and Olivia Noon

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